Славистика, литература и переписка брненских филологов

The author of the present study deals with the problems of personal documents, especially correspondence, of two selected Brno philologists connected with Slavonic studies - confirming the permeation of academic philology at Czechoslovak universities and current literature, literary criticism and domestic literature and culture in general, the situation which is gradually fading away now. The material is based on some specimens of the correspondence of the two Brno scholars - František Chudoba (1878-1941), an anglicist whose commentaries upon university lectures at Czech Charles University at the end of the 19th century as well as his remarks concerning his stay in England (Cambridge, Oxford, London) where he kept close personal relations with several important figures of current British cultural life, including Robert William Seton-Watson (1879-1951), represent valuable scholarly documents, and Oleg Sus (1924-1982), one of the brilliant specialists in aesthetics in postwar Brno university who competently analysed the roots of Czech structuralism as well as the substance of Czech and international modernism and avantgarde. The above-mentioned letters are is kept in the Archives of Masaryk University together with other documents manifesting the compact philological thought which reflected the achievements of current aesthetics, literary scholarship and culture studies.