Czech studies(100)

The Pied Piper

For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-c...

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

This book is subtitled "A Humorous – If Possible – Novella from the Ghetto." It was published in 1969 by a famous satirist from Prague, a...

A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto

Views from the Inside

From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the latter twentieth century displaye...

Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948–1989)

Moderní rétorika na univerzitě

This work explains reasons why modern rhetoric should be included university curricula, explains the main goals and importance of the sub...

Příspěvek k metodice výuky

Korpus a korpusová lingvistika

The content and focus of Corpus and Corpus Linguistics is captured in the book’s title. It centers on the corpus, a relatively new phenom...

Česká věta na rozhraní mezi gramatikou a pragmatikou

Czech Sentence on the Boundary between Grammar and Pragmatics focuses on phenomena arising from the employment of sentences/utterances in...

Angažovaná čítanka Romana Jakobsona

This anthology presents the famous literary research and linguist, Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) as an active participant and co-creator of ...

Čeština nerodilých mluvčích s mateřským jazykem neslovanským

This work characterized the "interlanguage" of students learning Czech as a foreign language. The description is based on a long-term res...

The Well at Morning

Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obskurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at...

Selected Poems and Graphic Artworks, 1925–1971

The Cremator (paperback)

“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.” It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and per...

Svatováclavská bible

"The Czech Bible, That is the Holy Scriptures Based on the Used Ancient and General Latin Translation Endorsed by the General Holy Roman ...

Co je ironická věda

István Vörös, a Hungarian Czech scholar, literary scientist, aesthetician and university professor, is primarily a poet, although his fic...