Czech studies(75)

A Nation of Bookworms?

Nation of Bookworms? takes an in-depth look at the reading culture of the Czech Republic-the country with the highest number of libraries...

The Czechs as Readers: Reading in Times of Civilizational Fatigue

Lamentation for 77,297 Victims

Jiří Weil’s documentary prose poem, Lamentation for 77,297 Victims is a literary monument to the Czech Jews killed during the Holocaust. ...

Poetry in Exile

In his book Josef Hrdlička opens the question of what exactly constitutes Exile Poetry, and indeed whether it amounts to a category as fu...

Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition

Česko-německá literární křižovatka

Gabriela Veselá’s extensive publication provides a synoptic exposition of the history of German literature in the Czech lands from the ol...

Komu múza přeje

Leszek Engelking (1955) is one of the most industrious scholars in Bohemian studies from the University of Lodz in Poland. He engages in ...

Od Máchy k Topolovi. Výbor ze studií

Bohumil Hrabal. A Full-length Portrait

Described as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century,” Bohumil Hrabal ranks among the most important and widely transla...

Gramatické rozbory češtiny

This handbook is primarily intended for students of the first year of the bachelor program of Czech studies and contains explanations of ...

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The Shop on Main Street

A classical work of the 1960s Czechoslovak literature and film in a new publication of Iris Urwin Lewit’s translation. An original and re...

Samizdat Past and Present

This anthology of texts by Czech literary scientists presents the phenomenon of the samizdat and its historical transformation. The chapt...

Příručka k morfologii češtiny

This textbook was written for the students in the bachelor degree program of Czech studies, which follows up on the textbook "Grammatical...

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Česko-maďarské ob(z)ory: Kapitoly z dějin česko-maďarských univerzitních vztahů

This monograph, compiled by a group of scholars led by Jiří Januška, presents on a large scale and in a broad scope several areas and asp...

Heterocosmica III

In 1998 in the American city of Baltimore, Lubomír Doležel, student of Professor Havránek and a contemporary follower of Czech structural...

Fikční světy protomoderní české prózy