literary criticism(146)

Transnacionální poetika

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

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

Lyrická poezie

Mutlu Konuk Blasing, an American scholar of Turkish origin, investigates the nature of the lyric subject and its relation to poetic langu...

Bolest a slast slov

Dotek poezie

At the moment when we read a poem or listen to it, something noteworthy takes place. Can we really say that we are those to whom it is ad...

O otázkách lyrického oslovení

Temná tvář české literatury

The most recent publication (2021) of Joanna Goszczyńska, Polish expert on Czech studies, is composed of individual studies tracing the w...

Kolotoč moderny

Teorie pohádky: Psychoanalýza Karkulky

The source of many a fairy tale is a dream commonly reported by children, lost in history and later retold in various versions as part of...

The Avant-Postman

The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyc...

Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce

Moderní hispanoamerická literatura

This publication aims to capture the key moments and trends in Latin American literatures from the late 19th century to the early 21st ce...

Patrick Chamoiseau: Le chant dʼombre et de lumière

The monograph focuses on poetic topoi and literary images in Patrick Chamoiseau’s novels. The imaginary, a concept studied by Ernst Rober...

Lyrická gesta

With its entry into the world a poem creates the space in which it finds itself. By means of lyrical gestures it poses questions, opens, ...

Poetika postmodernismu

First published in 1988, A Poetics of Postmodernism is a pivotal study by Linda Hutcheon. In her discussion of postmodernism as a phenome...

Historie, teorie, beletrie

České teorie překladu I, II

A critical edition of Jiří Levý’s extensive classic work Czech Theories of Translation – the first history of translation in the national...