Ke kategorii literárního prostoru

The study focuses on two main topics. The first theme discussed is the possibility to develop a theoretical-application model of a description of the literary category of space as a semantic quality; the second is a specific example – the special schemes and configurations in selected romanettos by Jakub Arbes. The theoretical part of the study is devoted to a method of describing special categories within a unified classification model, which is designed to reflect, on the one hand, the findings concerning the literary space up to date, but also to be functionally applicable within the frame of the contemporary approach to the description of literary-historical phenomena that draw from the so-called synoptic-pulsation modelling. The functionality of the proposed model is verified by means of its application to specific romanettos by Jakub Arbes, which are selected not only to represent various stages of Arbes's work, but also de facto to reflect the general development of thematic transformations from the poetics of romanticism to realism in the Czech literature of the second half of the 19th century. From this viewpoint, Arbes's writings are a transitory phenomenon, whose pulsation qualities can be, besides other categories, functionally reflected and described on the level of spatial schemes.