literary criticism(145)

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, ...

Louis Cazamian’s Theory of Humour

The monograph examines Louis Cazamian’s writings on the nature of humour. It shows how they tie into Bergson’s theory of the comic as a c...

Literary Theory

This textbook captures the fundamental moments in thinking about literature and art in English speaking countries in Renaissance, Neoclas...

An Historical Introduction

Lectures on American Literature

The first edition of this book, published in 2002, aimed to complete the study material for our students of American literature. The thir...

Laudabile Carmen – část II

The second part of this textbook, Laudabile Carmen, is conceived as an introduction to Roman poetry and an initial presentation of reflec...

Kapitoly z římské rétoriky a poetiky

Laudabile Carmen – část I

This monograph was conceived as an aid for university students, teachers and other people seeking information about Roman metrics. The fi...

Římská metrika

Krásná próza raného obrození 2. Antologie

Lenka Kusáková presents fiction in the early stages of the National Revival movement based on texts published in magazines, almanacs and ...

Krásná próza raného obrození 1. Studie

Lenka Kusáková presents fiction in the early stages of the National Revival movement based on texts published in magazines, almanacs and ...

Komu múza přeje

Leszek Engelking (1955) is one of the most industrious scholars in Bohemian studies from the University of Lodz in Poland. He engages in ...

Od Máchy k Topolovi. Výbor ze studií

Kniha vrchních písařů

Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) is an essential work of Chinese historiography. It covers the history of China from its mythical o...

Výbor z díla čínského historika

Kapitoly z francouzské, italské a české literatury

The first of the three sections focuses on works devoted to French literature. Following an essay on the development of the Holy Grail mo...

Kapitoly o českém verši

Miroslav Červenka (1932–2005) was one of the most important personalities of the Czech literary science of the second half of the 20th ce...