literary criticism(148)

Učiňme člověka ke svému obrazu

This study maps the literary development of the classical myth of Pygmalion, the Jewish legend of the Golem, and the fictional adaptation...

Pygmalion, Golem a automat jako tři verze mýtu o umělém stvoření (nejen) v Budoucí Evě Villierse de l’Isle-Adam

Úvod do dějin čínského písemnictví a krásné literatury II

Dynastie Qin a Han

Úvod do fantastické literatury

The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre is one of the fundamental works of this French literary scientist of Bulgarian o...

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...

V síti dějin literatury národního obrození

This work brings both documentary and theoretical reflection of the process of emancipation on which the foundations of modern Czech lite...

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

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 ...

Ve světle kabaly

In the Light of the Kabbala offers a reflection of the Jewish religious and mystic tradition in interwar Polish literature using works by...

Židovská mystika v polské literatuře meziválečného období (Aleksander Wat, Bruno Schulz, Bolesław Leśmian)

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

Versification and Authorship Attribution

The technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem’s author based on f...

Vladislav Vančura

This is the first major analytical study in English of the work of the leading Czech Avant-garde novelist and dramatist, Vladislav Vančur...

The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde

Writing Underground

In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machove...

Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia