| Summary: | This MA thesis deals with the readers of internet literary servers in the Czech context. This topic is not thoroughly dealt with in secondary literature; therefore we will base our research mainly on observation of the problem. In the first part of the thesis, we will give account of the three most prominent Czech literary servers - Totem, Pismak and Literra. First of all, we will explain their historical genesis and differences which exist among them. Next, we will concentrate more generally on the advantages and disadvantages of publishing online and on the life of an internet community. We will present the ways of publishing on the internet and the level of its criticism. We will try to define terms such as "internet literature" and "graphomania". Finally, we will introduce some of the members of the new generation of authors, who originally began publishing on a literary server and now have their first successful publication in print. In the second part of the thesis, we will present the results of our survey, which was responded by students of the faculty of arts, authors publishing on literary servers and Czech writers. We will try to interpret their views on internet-based literature. This type of literature is regarded with general distrust and we will attempt to explain the reasons for it. To...
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