The author of the present study demonstrates the influence of Matija Murko upon Czech literary criticism. His reception was easier because he was a man of German language and culture, but at the same time sensitively understood the complicated nature of SlavonicGerman relations; he was interested in Russian influences (Alexander Veselovsky) and in the Czech environment created a silent developmental methodological alternative to more popular functionalism. This left positive traces even in the periods after 1945 and 1948.
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