Critical Discourse in the Period 1918 - 1922 (Reception of Early Work of Čapek´s Brothers).

This bachelor thesis analyzes the critical discourse in the Czech literary environment from 1918 to 1922 in the relation to the early modernist work of Čapek's brothers. The theoretical aspect deals with various approaches to literary history and the potential benefits of the analysis of contemporary critical reception of literature, and of critical discourse in general. The custom practical section is devoted to an analysis of the accumulated material from the contemporary press. It analyzes the speech of major critics who have written about the works of Čapek's brothers from different aesthetic and ideological perspectives, and seeks to outline the essential elements of representative variants of contemporary critical discourse, which is characterized in terms of aesthetic concepts and contemporary ideas. In the conclusion the results are considered as absorption and subversive forces in contemporary speech