Czech studies(104)

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...

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia’s postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Jo...

Mluvnice současné češtiny 1

Mluvnice současné češtiny 1 (Grammar of contemporary Czech 1), written by scholars working in various departments of Charles University, ...

Jak se píše a jak se mluví

Mluvnice současné češtiny 2

This volume presents a view of Czech syntax based on grammatically annotated linguistic material of contemporary Czech from Czech compute...

Syntax češtiny na základě anotovaného korpusu

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

Narativní způsoby v české próze 19. století

The monograph, written by a team of authors, presents the findings of a first attempt at systematically studying the features of Czech fi...

O českém verši

This collection of papers, On Czech Verse, presents a summary of Květa Sgallová’s long-term scholarly orientation. Rooted in the structur...

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Ladislav Fuks is an outstanding Czech writer, whose works primarily consist of psychological fiction focusing on the themes of anxiety an...

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

Orchestrace jedné denunciace

In 1950, the cultural weekly magazine Tvorba launched a defamation campaign against Jaroslav Seifert. The impetus for this was the poet’s...

Okolnosti tiskové kampaně proti Jaroslavu Seifertovi a jeho Písni o Viktorce

Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp

The book is a novel-interview initiated by the Hungarian journalist, writer and anti-communist activist based in Slovakia László Szigeti....

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