Literatura pro děti a mládež s environmentální tematikou : společenská a literárněhistorická východiska tvorby, současná literární produkce

The study reacts to the abundance of titles with environmental themes on the Czech book market, both the translated titles and works by Czech authors. The aim of the study is to comprehensive¬ly identify the impulses that prompted the entry and promotion of environmental themes into contemporary book production. The authors believe that, in addition to external impulses, the long-term experience with negative effects of the extensive economy and industrialization, passed down through generations, played and still plays a role in this process. These facts – processed as a reminder of the historical and economic changes of Czech society, especially the beginnings of the development of industry in our country – are reflected in the introductory passages of the study. They are followed by a reference to the traditions of natural prose in literary works for both adult and child readers. From contemporary literary works for children and young people, in which titles with environ¬mental issues are abundantly represented, the authors present a selected segment of works. For individual titles, they define the age spectrum of potential child readers, monitor which genres the environmental theme is most intensively connected to, and what possible changes occur in the given genres. They pay particular attention to narrative prose and non-fiction literature. Among the most prominent trends, especially in non-fiction of this focus, they include a change in the ratio of the textual and visual components of books, innovations in the connection of words and images, and in the graphic design of titles. The study introduces specific titles of male and female authors, in whose work the reflection of environmental issues is combined with the required ar¬tistic quality.