Klasicismus v diskusi na stránkách Listů filologických

The article analyzes the discussion about Czech literary classicism in the journal Listy filologické. It is based on the currently ongoing research of discursivity of 19th century Czech and Slovak literature. The research showed that due to its interdisciplinary nature the Listy filologické journal became in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century an important platform for discussing issues and terminology specification of classicality and classicism in the Czech culture. With the remarkable scholar Arne Novak, the question of the nature of the Czech classicism came to the fore in the first half of the 20th century, which, unlike previous studies on this topic, was not primarily descriptive but analytical. Therefore it attracted attention of the classical philologist Jaroslav Ludvíkovský, who gave more precision to Novák's definition of classicism in the Czech literature. Due to the violent ideological limitation of the intellectual influence of Czech classical philology in the second half of the 20th century, however, it was apparently not possible to prevent the gradual reduction of understanding of literary classicism.