The invariable and variable factors in the nature of Czech educational prose and drama from children's life (pedagogical topoi of the journey, outsider and asylum).
Abstract
This paper analyses the primary character of Czech prose from children's life, which until the end of the 19th century was conceived mostly as a educational tool and especially in the 1860s started to give way to the aesthetic impulses of the period. Abundant pedagogical output of this kind, which came into being, among other things, due to the reform of teachers' education and increasingly rigorous control of youth reading (so‑called purification, initiated by the state, i.e. the retrogressive censorship of school libraries maintained literature on a simple model, which usually corresponds with a constricted number of functions, as defined in the fairy‑tale genre by Vladimir Propp.
The gradual transformations of traditional pedagogical topoi surprisingly helped to resuscitate this model in the genre of Czech instructional camping prose, which was still popular, and also helped this model and its general features to resonate in significantly more artistic prose for young adults.