Overlaps and Demarcations in Space and Time: The Literary Discourse of Prague Modernity(ies)

在这个项目中，在世纪之交和20世纪初，布拉格的德语和捷克语文学和文化就其交流和描绘的过程进行了比较。在物质方面的参考框架是布拉格市，尽管它在各种集体身份话语中也被赋予了不同的象征方面。这是由与塑造时代的文明现代化进程相关的各自情境所补充的，在同时代人中有广泛的反应：从肯定，通过批判性反思，这往往导致对时代的危机缠身的诊断，到拒绝。产品的文学话语的时间在最广泛的意义上，它包括文学作品，文学批评和文化批评，明确或隐含的观点，这是潜在的假设，他们自己的立场（布拉格，德国-布拉格，捷克-布拉格或在更广泛的意义上，波西米亚）与现代性现象的关系。标题中的括号式复数“布拉格现代性”，问的是人们是否可以谈论一种特定的布拉格现代性，或者现代性的观点是否异质，但不一定在国家界线上有所不同，彼此并存。这里提出的两个部分项目主要是分别致力于空间和时间的基本范畴。一个专题项目研究了现代德语和捷克语散文文本，参考了它们各自的空间语义概念，并分析了布拉格城市或布拉格的城市形象是如何在它们中建模的，并与个人或集体的身份概念有关。因此，首先要关注的是重建当代身份话语与城市中具体场所（建筑、纪念碑、纪念馆以及个别地区）的联系；第二步是研究文学文本如何继续书写公共空间的这些编码，重写它们，完全重新书写它们或质疑它们。墨卡托研究员的图书项目特别关注布拉格“批判现代主义”的传播者，他们的特点是在现代有一种不连续性的感觉，以怀疑的态度看待传统的和以进步为导向的模式（认识论的、科学的、宗教的、政治的或伦理的）。在他们的文学和新闻文本中，这种经历主要表现在大都市存在的主题化和他们认为脆弱的身份。这项研究的核心问题是，在布拉格，讲德语和捷克语的文化参与者之间的交流运动，以及他们之间的紧张关系和争论，是否，以及在多大程度上，起到了促进布拉格（关键的中欧）现代性发展的作用。

In this project, the German- and Czech-language literature and culture of Prague around the turn of the century and the early 20th century are compared with regard to their processes of exchange and delineation. The frame of reference in material terms is the city of Prague, though it is also ascribed differing symbolic aspects in the various collective identity discourses. This is supplemented by the respective situatedness in relation to the civilizatory modernization processes shaping the time, with a broad spectrum of reactions among contemporaries: from affirmation, via critical reflection, which often leads to a crisis-ridden diagnosis of the time, to rejection. Products of the literary discourse of the time in the broadest sense, which encompasses works of literature, literary criticism and cultural criticism, explicitly or implicitly view, this is the underlying assumption, their own position (Prague, German-Prague, Czech-Prague or, in a wider sense, Bohemian) in relation to the phenomenon of modernity. The parenthesized plural in the title, "Prague Modernities", asks whether one can speak of a specifically Prague variety of modernity, or whether views of modernity that were heterogeneous, but did not necessarily differ along national lines, existed alongside one another. The two partial projects proposed here are devoted primarily to the basic categories of space and time respectively. A monograph project examines modern German- and Czech-language prose texts with reference to their respective spatio-semantic conceptions and analyzes how the city of Prague, or the city imago of Prague, is modelled in them and viewed in relation to individual or collective notions of identity. The concern, then, is first of all a reconstruction of the defining contemporary identity discourses in their connections to concrete places in the city (buildings, monuments, memorials as well as individual districts); the second step is to examine how literary texts continue writing these encodings of the public space, rewrite them, write them completely anew or question them. The Mercator-Fellows book project focuses especially on purveyors of "critical modernism" in Prague, who, characterized by a feeling of discontinuity in modern times, viewed conventional and progress-oriented models (of an epistemological, scientific, religious, political or ethical kind) with scepticism. In their literary and journalistic texts, this experience manifested itself primarily in the thematization of metropolitan existence and an identity they considered fragile. The central question of the study is whether, and if so to what extent, the exchange movements between German- and Czech-speaking cultural actors evident in Prague, but also the tensions and polemics between them, acted as stimuli for the development of a specific Prague variety of (critical Central European) modernity.