Critical literary discourse and its media coverage on example of Vladimír Novotný

Czech critical literary discourse has been formed for many centuries. Its development was affected by movements in artistic styles and political changes, development of technological environment and was shaped by mediatization in last two decades. Typical representative of current critical literary discourse is Vladimir Novotny. This work would be able to describe current critical literary discourse and also outline its future development, by analyzing literary criticisms written by Vladimir Novotny and comparing his work with essays of other critics. This work will also compare two other present literary critics. First one is Josef Chuchma who has been managing section Culture in daily news MF DNES for eighteen years. Martin C. Putna is famous Czech literary scientist, philosopher and religionist. The aim of this thesis is to compare of essays of Josef Chuchma and Martin C. Putna to find mediatizating tendencies and describe their influence on critical literary discourse. In the section of the annexes is comprehensive interview with Vladimir Novotny which shows that literary critics realize tendencies of mediatization in critical literary discourse. Literary critics are not able to name them properly, but they can express them