The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture

Index

“Abacus” (Seifert), 123 ABC (Nezval), 123 abortion, 113–14, 221 The Absolute Gravedigger (Nezval), 126, 132 Academy for Science, Literature and Art, 47 aesthetics and aestheticism: as Czech, 57; Decadent movement and, 17, 89–90; in Hlaváßek’s works, 57–59; homosexual identity linked to, 17– 18, 89–90; Karásek and, 17–18; Prague School critical approach and, 7; transgressive aesthetic of Wilde, 18, 89–90, 92 Africa, 120 Ahasuerus, the Eternal Jew, 133, 155 Aimless Walk (film, Hackenschmied), 128–29 alienation, 8; in ¢apek’s works, 148; between generations, 187; modernity and, 122, 132–33, 145; Proletarian Poets and, 117, 127; sexual frustration or loneliness and, 124–27, 197; surrealism as antidote to loneliness and fear, 132; urban life and, 127, 133; in Wolker’s works, 115–16 allegory: Bohemian Maidens legend as political, 215; ¢apek’s works as allegorical , 140, 142, 144–46, 150–52, 158, 166, 168; Chytilová’s Daisies as, 205, 207; Erben’s works as political allegory,32,34;feministdeployment of, 205, 215; Kundera’s works as, 198 All Men Are Mortal (de Beauvoir), 155–56 Alter, Robert, 183–84 Amazon motif, 6, 21, 22–25 America: in ¢apek’s works, 142, 146, 152; Edison as icon of, 126–27; in Nezval ’s works, 126–28 American Club for Women, 74 Andersen, Hans Christian, 155–56 Anderson, Benedict, 20 “Angel of Doubt” (Andersen), 155–56 anti-Semitism, 46, 107, 149, 153, 182 Apollinaire, Guillaume (Wilhelm de Kostrowitzky ), 4, 48, 110, 112, 123, 133 Arcos, René, 108 Aristotle, 22, 153 “art for art’s sake,” 89–93, 105, 128–29 artificial life: golems as, 149, 153–54; robots as, 138, 143, 163; Shelley’s Dr. Frankenstein and other literary precursors, 137, 144 Artistic Union Dev®tsil. See Dev®tsil “Art Today and Tomorrow” (Teige), 121 Atala (Chateaubriand), 16 “At the Sign of the Three Lilies” (Neruda ), 42–44 Auerbach, Berthold, 66 avant garde. See poetism; Proletarian Poets; surrealism Awkward Tales (¢apek), 138 The Axe (Vaculík), 187 “Bacchanalia” (Karásek), 56 Bach Reaction: as context, 31–32, 34, 38, 71, 72 Back to Methuselah (Shaw), 155 249 Index A Bag of Fleas (film, Chytilová), 204 Balbín, Bohuslav, 14 “The Ballad of the Dream” (Wolker), 114–15 “The Ballad of the Stoker’s Eyes” (Wolker), 115–16, 121, 126 “The Ballad of the Unborn Child” (Wolker), 113–14, 221 Balzac, Honoré de, 61 barbarians, 26–27, 55–56, 58, 214–16 “A Barbarian Woman in Captivity” (Linhartová), 214–16 Barbusse, Henri, 104, 108 BartoØ, FrantiØek, 78–79 “BaruØka” (N®mcová), 66 Battle of White Mountain, 3, 14, 52 54, 185 Bazzi, Antonio Battista, 94–97 Beckett, Samuel, 216 Bedny, Demyan, 105 The Beginning of a Romance (opera, Janáßek), 85, 86 Beloved (Morrison), 201, 216–17 Bely, Andrei, 132 BeneØová, Bo¡ena, 77 Bergson, Henri, 109 Berková, Alexandra, 203 Berlin, 4–5 Bezruß, Petr, 111–12, 202 Biebl, Konstantín, 110, 124, 132 A Bite to Eat (film, N®mec), 183 Blade Runner (film, Scott), 138 blindness, 115, 126 blood: in Erben’s work, 34–36, 221; racial purity and, 46; sexualized violence and, 34–36, 55–56, 113, 135; as symbol of vitality, 155; in Wolker’s works, 113. See also vampires the body: castration imagery, 113–16, 117, 126, 146–48, 151–52, 154, 193; dismemberment and, 24, 117, 133–34, 147, 154; dismemberment of female, 24; female body as commodity, 113, 123, 133–34, 136, 212; fetishized, 133–34, 146–47; gaze and, 151; as machine, 148, 150–51; as metaphor of women’s experience, 203–4; nudity in film, 130; objectification of female body, 123, 133–34; politic as female body, xi, 195; science and knowledge of, 150–51; sexuality as threat, 130; Sokol movement and cult of masculine body, 53, 55 Bohemia: ancient glory and decline of, 45–47; female personifications of, 22. See also nation, female personifications of Bohemian Maidens (mythological and literary figures), 24, 50, 214–15 Bohemian Prosody (Dobrovskµ), 15 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kundera ), 197–98 The Book with the Red Cover (Berková), 203 Boußková, Tereza, 203–4 Bouda Theater (Prague), 23 “A Bouquet” (Erben), 32 A Bouquet of National Legends (Erben), 32, 68, 198 Bo¡ena N®mcová’s Fan (Seifert), 64 Brabcová, Zuzana, 203 bread, 113, 116, 183–86, 188 “The Break” (Biebl), 124 Breiskµ, Arthur, 91 Brentano, Clemens, 24 Breton, André, 106, 131–32, 136 Brezhnev, Leonid, 186, 207 Brno Literary Group, 105; Christian themes and...