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Sail and Shipwreck: to the Nautical Metaphor in the Literature of the Central-European Modernism

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011

Abstract

The study considers the transformations of nautical imagination in literary and artistic traditions, as well as in philosophical reflections, in the representative exemplary texts of the Čapeks brothers, F.Kafka and R.Weiner focuses on the images of shipwreck as an expression of a certain constellation of the Central-European Modernism.