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Fabula et historia : Václav Hájek of Libočany and fictional strategies of historiography

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014

Abstract

So far the academical reception of Czech chronicle by Václav Hájek of Libočany was criticized for not being considerate of the early modern period literary context. It can be concluded from this poster's analysis of previous critiques and interpretations of Hájek's chronicle and from the excerption of key aspects of the theory of fictional worlds, that there is a lack of knowledge about the early modern period discoursive praxis, which defined the fictionality of text(s), as well as about formal and methodical aspects of this kind of work.

Only through a thorough inspections of these two aspects it is possible to understand Czech chronicle and similar works as both historiographical sources and components of literary progress. This poster refers of author's paper comprised of selection of theoretical tools meant to identify the distinctions between fictional and non-fictional narratives and of a synthesis of theoretical conclusions and practical classifications of Hájek's chronicle, meaning this poster evaluates their expressive value regarding the current (non-)fictional state of Czech chronicle.