In the context of the 1833 language controversy (the "Slovene Alphabet War"), Slovene literary historian and philologist Matija Čop commented at length on the review of the poetry almanac Krajnska čbelica that had been published in 1832 in Prague by František L. Čelakovský, an internationally known Czech poet. Čelakovský's defense of France Prešeren's poetry (containing sample translations) was used by Čop as a foreign argument supporting his Romantic and cosmopolitan cultural programme. This article examines these metadiscursive frames to point out the symptoms of interliterariness through which, in the Austrian Empire, three types of literary systems were being established concurrently: systems of national literatures, Slavic literary centrism, and world literature (including geo-cultural differences between centres, subcentres, and peripheries).
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