Czech studies(98)

Jazyk a jazykověda

The third edition of this established publication on linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of common as well as less common infor...

Přehled a slovníky

A World Apart and Other Stories

“It grew dark and a mist spread over the countryside like a curtain. We were at the Bohemian border. Customs control, shouting, the din o...

Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle

Pragmatika v češtině

This monograph, Pragmatics in Czech, deals with phenomena from the point of view of the Czech language, which have as a whole come to be ...

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

Trained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, scholar, and political and cultural activist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) dev...

Učebnice české morfologie s cvičebnicí pro studující bohemistiky a příbuzných oborů

Ear

A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Communist Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party, Ludvík enjoys all t...

The Lesser Histories

From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own lif...

Slabika a její hranice v češtině

This book presents a complex analysis of syllables in Czech. The general part presents the most up-to-date and detailed overview of infor...

Lingvobohemistické analýzy

This book presents a collection of 21 articles on the linguistic issues of Czech grammar and the contemporary use of Czech from the viewp...

On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle

“I love Christmas, that Muslim holiday.” (K. Biebl) In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) travelled from ...

Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry

Záhřmotí

This book aims to analyze the artistic use of sound instrumentation in Vladimír Holan’s poetry during the period delimited by his collect...

Hlásková instrumentace v poezii Vladimíra Holana

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