When the Servant Becomes the Master: Czech Attempts at Organizing the Problem of Descriptiveness

A b s t r a c t

The project Poetika deskripce. Průzkum reprezentačního materiálu v intermediální perspektivě was completed in 2017 by Ústavu pro českou literaturu AVČR. The book Viditelnépopisy. Vizualita, sugestivita a intermedialita literární deskripce by Stanislava Fedrova and Alice Jedličkova is the final result, summarizing the project, together with the complementary edited volume O popisu. They both constitute a successful attempt at a multi-faceted, diachronic, and synchronic undertaking of the complex issue of literary descriptiveness.