Czech translation in the National Revival: theory and practice

Abstract

This bachelor work focuses on literary movements influencing Czech translation theories in the time of the Czech National Revival. The central point of focus is then the movement of the Czech Pre-romanticism translation theories and literary aesthetics as the result of the characteristic developmental situation related to the linguistic and aesthetic phenomena connected with the needs of the Czech language, culture and national self-awareness. Czech Pre-romantic translation theories are the result of a complicated situation of the turn of 18th and 19th century when the Classicistic translation theories and aesthetics did not completely vanish from the Czech approaches to translation and literature and thus started to interfere with newer theories.