Czech studies(89)

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

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...

Poezie v exilu

Josef Hrdlička’s book opens the question of what is exile poetry and whether it represents a similarly significant area as love or nature...

Čeští básníci za studené války a západní básnická tradice

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

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

A Full-length Portrait

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 ...

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...