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The main topic of the study is a critical consideration of the analytical and interpretative methods used by the literary historian and critic Jiří Zizler in his monograph on the poet Zdeněk Rotrekl – The Aristocrat of the Catacombs. Towards the Life and Work of Zdeněk Rotrekl (2021). The study demonstrates that Zizler’s book is the result of the combination of several approaches: the literary-critical, historical, and comparative, as well as the structural, phenomenological, and hermeneutical. One must also add the method of close reading, which Zizler uses to create his interpretive models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study deals with three book collections from the diaries of the Czech literary scholar and pedagogue Zdeněk Kožmín (1925-2007). The first book, Struktury (1995), contains his diary entries from 1975-1989, i.e. from the period of normalisation when he taught at a secondary school. The second book, entitled Obtisky (1998), covers the period 1990-1997. The study also includes a reflection on the reception of Kožmín's first two books by literary critics. The core of the study is the description and analysis of the third diary, which is titled Bubáčci. It contains Kožmín's diary entries from 1998-2002. The main thematic line of the book is Kožmín's coping with the illness and death of his wife Drahomíra, and his rendering of this reality oscillates between intimate confession and testimony. The study also deals with other themes that are important to Kožmín and related to his reflection on his old age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study deals with Eduard Petrů's concept of interpretation and his approach to interpretation. The study explains the basic theoretical and methodological basis of his scientific works. The core of Petrů's concept of interpretation is the theory of interpretive space, interpretive fields and the interpretive center. According to Petrů, the basic key to the interpretation of the text is its poetics. The pivotal elements of his method of interpretation are contextualization, comparison, structural and functional analysis, and genre studies. Petrů is convinced that the aim of literary research is to obtain an adequate interpretation of the studied text. His concept of interpretation is text-centered and empirical: the interpretation is based on critical and rigorous analysis of the text material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]