literary criticism(146)

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...

Beyond Decadence

Jan Opolský has long been considered to be little more than an epigon of the Czech Decadence. By detailed analysis of his prose, this boo...

Exposing the Narrative Irony in Jan Opolský's Prose

Překlad a tlumočení jako most mezi kulturami

This publication, a follow up to Sedm tváří translatologie (Seven facets of translation studies; 2013), aims to present the current trend...

V perspektivě desetiletí

Over the Decades, written by Oleg Malevič (1928–2013), a Russian scholar focusing on Czech studies, presents thirty essays written in the...

Ťing-Ťie: Poznámky k písním ze světa lidí

This monograph compiled by three scholars from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, presents an aesthetic theory formulated...

A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels

Peter Ackroyd is one of the foremost contemporary British “London writers”. He focuses on the capital, its history, development and ident...

Palimpsesty, heterotopie a krajiny

This book addresses the phenomenon of history in contemporary British fiction. It focuses on the shift towards history as a decisive mome...

Historie v anglickém románu posledních desetiletí

Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts

Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally. However, his reception in Czechoslovakia, launched ...

Fenomén: Polská literární reportáž

This collective monograph represents the first publication in the Czech Republic on the phenomenon of Polish reportage, especially litera...

Mozaiky překladu. Translation Mosaics

The book responds to recent challenges in Translation Studies and calls for its invigoration, interdisciplinarity and internationality by...

K devadesátému výročí narození Jiřího Levého

Vera mundi lumina

German baroque sermons written in the Czech Lands represent one of the little researched areas of the philosophy and history of theology....

Výbor dominikánských barokních kázání

Válečné dětství a mládí (1939–1945) v literatuře a publicistice

This collective monograph focusing on books and magazine for children and youth and published during World War II (1939–1945), initiated ...