A Committed Author in the Modern Anarchist Lyric Radek Hylmar, Charles University Prague HERMES seminar 2015 Author, Authorship, and Authority in the Age.

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1 A Committed Author in the Modern Anarchist Lyric Radek Hylmar, Charles University Prague HERMES seminar 2015 Author, Authorship, and Authority in the Age of Cultural Studies and New Media Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

2 HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

3 S. K. Neumann (1875-1947) Jsem apoštol nového žití (I am the Apostle of the New Life, 1895) Apostrofy hrdé a vášnivé (Proud and Emotional Apostrophes, 1896) Satanova sláva mezi námi (Satan’s Fame among Us, 1897) Sen o zástupu zoufajících a jiné básně (Dream about the Desperate Masses, and Other Verses, 1903) Richard Dehmel (1863-1920) Erlösungen (1891) Aber die Liebe (1893) Weib und Welt (1896) HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

4 Scheme Neumann‘s social attitude Neumann‘s poems Richard Dehmel HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

5 The Epistle to the proletarian girl (Almanac of the Revolutionaries, 1903) Neo-Malthusianism “Among all the women, you are the only one who can say yes to the emancipation of woman…“ [P. 84] “… I am calling you to activity and to the struggle for your and mankind freedom.“ [P. 85] “Remember your duty alongside your brothers!“ [P. 88] HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

6 Propaganda Preaching: ethic  healthier life Individual   united society HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

7 Religious motives in the poems HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

8 Me and the others Attitude of lyrical subject to the ideal “...I saved myself, I go alone, I go strong and rush, I don’t trust to applause, I don’t take fright of spite and I rise only to my sun.” Meditation “All my glowing soul radiates towards you... my soul dreams about the sun. The strong men only can dream about the sun...” Here I lie with spread hands HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

9 We and the others “There are gloomy poets with arousing eyes... There are defiant souls, waves of great sees... There is Jonh the Baptist of the new faith and they snuggled to Him in a sweet friendship of souls... and they proudly call Him, the first rebel: Brother!” (Ad te clamamus exules filii Evae –) HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

10 Plurality/eternity in the individual “Oh, how many races cross in the stream of my wild blood...“ (Proud and Emotional Apostrophes, Not-national Song) “Cry of primeval material, boiling up towards ages in eternal series of metamorphoses, and wistful calling from the depths of man, captured soul warmly whine for affinity...“ (I Am the Apostle of the New Life, X.) HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

11 Neumann / Dehmel Utopian expectations, the ideal in my heart Lyrical subject: activity / passivity “In all the depth you must try to reach your aims by feeling them deeply“ Hieroglyph, Aber die Liebe, 1893 HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

12 Dehmel translated by Neumann Tragic Vision “…So come after all and drink, I will bleed for you to death. But the girl said him when he dies: They want water...” Dehmel: Aber die Liebe, 1893 Neumann: A Dream of desperate Masses, 1903 HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

13 Conclusion Unique individual – component of the new society Religious elements and rhetoric Neumann‘s pseudonyms: Apostata Antikrist Kupidos Kozonoh (Goat-foot) Faun HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015

14 Stanislav K. Neumann, ed., Kalendář revolucionářů na rok 1903. Knihovna Nového Kultu, Praha. 1902. P. 83–88. Stanislav K. Neumann, Básně I. Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění. Praha. 1962. Stanislav K. Neumann, Stati a projevy I. Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění. Praha. 1964. Richard Dehmel, Erlösungen. Eine Seelenwandlung in Gedichten und Sprüchen. G. J. Göschen’sche Verlagshandlung. Stuttgart. 1891. Richard Dehmel, Aber die Liebe. Ein Ehemanns und Menschenbuch. Druck und Verlag von Dr. E. Albert & Co. München. 1898 Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt. Verlag von Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin, 1896. (Sporer Peter Michael für ngiyaw eBooks. 2009) F. V. Krejčí, Stanislav K. Neumann: Satanova slávy mezi námi. In: Rozhledy VII. n. 12. Praha. 1898. F. X. Šalda, Kritické projevy IV. Melantrich. Praha. 1951. Červenka, Miroslav, Symboly, písně a mýty. Studie o proměnách českého lyrického slohu na přelomu století. /Sova, Březina, Neumann, Gellner, Toman/. Československý spisovatel. Praha. 1966. Jaap Grave, Peter Sprengel and Hans Vandevoorde, eds., Anarchismus und Utopie in der Literatur um 1900: Deutschlad, Flandern und die Niederlande. Königshausen & Neumann. Würzburg. 2005. P. 11- 21. Gertrude Cepl-Kaufman and Rolf Kauffeldt, Berlin-Friedrichshagen. Literaturhauptstadt um die Jahrhundertwende. Der Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis. BOER. Grafrath. 1994. HERMES seminar 2015:Charles University in Prague, June 14 to June 18, 2015 Literature