2ème session du Séminaire interne du CEFRES 2025-2026
Par la présentation de recherches en cours, l’objectif du Séminaire du CEFRES est de soulever et de soumettre à la discussion des questions de méthodes, d’approches ou de concepts, dans un esprit pluridisciplinaire, permettant à chacun de croiser ses propres perspectives avec les travaux présentés.

Lieu : bibliothèque du CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 et en ligne (pour obtenir le lien, écrivez à cefres(@)cefres.cz)
Date : mardi 14 octobre 2025, 16 h 30
Langue : anglais

Intervenant : Nina PAPCUNOVÁ (CEFRES / SAS)
Discutante : Eva KRÁSOVÁ (CEFRES / Université Charles)

Résumé

Modernism as a literary movement is closely linked to urbanization and the space of cities. Literary texts from this period often depict urban spaces, with natural environments appearing less frequently, often only in opposition to the city. Ecological awareness was not yet fully developed, but the negative effects of industrial progress on the enviroment were becoming noticeable, and were used as a thematic basis for the creation of literary texts. Although texts depicting nature constitute a smaller part of modernist literature, they provide contemporary research with important material on the basis of which it is possible to examine various forms of nature and human attitude towards nature at the beginning of the 20th century. Contemporary literary theories and their increasing focus on the different functions and depictions of nature in literature offer useful tools for researching forms of nature in older literary periods.