literary criticism(144)

Odrazy vesmíru v nás

The book is a complex dialogue between a generation of Czech and Slovak Japanologists and the work of Professor Zdenka Švarcová, who play...

Jiří Levý – průkopník moderního myšlení o překladu

Jiří Levý – a passionate researcher, author of hundreds of published works, visionary, popular teacher, and expert in numerous fields. Fr...

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

Cestami textem

Interrogating the form and purpose of teaching literature in Czech secondary schools is an unstable field. The book provides an answer to...

Interpretační úlohy ve středoškolské výuce literatury

Mezi domovem a kolonií

Jana Pátková, Slovak studies specialist, presents mutual depictions of Czechs and Slovaks in their respective national representations as...

Příběh česko-slovenských vztahů v literatuře jednoho století

Of Spaces and Ideas

This monograph provides a deeper insight into the work of two contemporary British novelists, Jim Crace and Simon Mawer, with a particula...

The Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer

Ancient Weeds

The handbooks of literary studies usually tell us that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergence of modern...

Contours of Popular and Trash Literature in Ancient and Medieval Times

The culture of neural networks

The possibilities of generated cultural production have undergone fundamental changes in recent years, leading to a rethinking of existin...

Synthetic literature and art in (not only) the Czech and Slovak context

K postkolonialismu

In this comprehensive compilation of her literary critical and translation studies, essays, and reviews from the period between 2001 and ...

Výbor literárněkritických textů z let 2001–2023

Transnacionální poetika

The image of poetry as a culturally homogeneous and purely national phenomenon is not sustainable, and Jahan Ramazani, professor of Engli...

Poznámky k literatuře I

Notes to Literature contains texts written by Theodor Adorno mostly in the 1950s. These are essays that create new rules of literary crit...

Václav Havel’s Meanings

No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the time of his death in 2011. In the years ...

His Key Words and Their Legacy