literary criticism(120)

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...

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

Angažovaná čítanka Romana Jakobsona

This anthology presents the famous literary research and linguist, Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) as an active participant and co-creator of ...

Arbeo z Freisingu: Život a umučení sv. Jimrama, mučedníka

In a parallel Czech-Latin version, this book brings the first Czech translation of an original, difficult-to-read review of a Latin text ...

Básnická sémantika

Beyond Decadence

Jan Opolsky 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

Browningová nebo Klášterský? Krásnohorská nebo Byron?

Eva Kalivodová's work employs several of her long-term themes of interest: 19th-century Czech and English literature, with a few overlaps...

O rodu v životě literatury

Cesty a portréty...

Since the first non-fragmented linguistic and literary monuments, dating to the late 12th century, Hungarian literature has demonstrated ...

...moderní maďarské literatury v českém kontextu I.

Cesty za smyslem literárního díla

This publication contains selected essays and articles by literary scientist Milan Jankovič. Jankovič divides his essays into several sec...

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Co je ironická věda

István Vörös, a Hungarian Czech scholar, literary scientist, aesthetician and university professor, is primarily a poet, although his fic...

Co se chce říct mluvením

This book by a prominent French sociologist, whose reflections also had a fundamental influence on aesthetics, literary history and many ...

Ekonomie jazykové směny

Crossing between Tradition and Modernity

Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity presents thirteen essays written in honor of Milena Doleželová-Velingerová (1932–2012), a member...

Essays in Commemoriation of Milena Doležalová-Velingerová (1932–2012)