Czech studies(93)

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. ...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

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

Ear

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

Učebnice české morfologie s cvičebnicí pro studující bohemistiky a příbuzných oborů

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

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 ...