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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, ...

Jazyková situace v současném Španělsku

The monograph presents a sociolinguistic analysis of contemporary Spain. Based on a detailed description of the languages and dialects cu...

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...

Ethnic Diaspora Festivities in the Czech Republic

The publication reviews the festivities in the lives of immigrants who came to the Czech Republic after 1990 and who have since created n...

Cultural Traditions between Isolation, Integration and Hybridization

Překlad do nemateřského jazyka

The tolerated and frequent practice of translating into non-native languages ("non-native translation") is a phenomenon which has not bee...

Fakta, otázky, perspektivy

Kočka se čtyřmi ocasy

The third collection of fifty short essays by the science populariser František Koukolík is a sequel to the volumes Man Bites Dog (2021) ...

Lidé v roce 2023

Švamberkové v proměnách pěti století

The book traces the history of the Schwanberg Family from the 13th century to the beginning of the 18th century. It follows the main line...

Kultura – zbožnost – symbolická politika

The book is a selection of the French historian and Czech studies expert Marie-Élizabeth Ducreux’s lifework. It aims to enable Czech read...

Proměny společnosti ve střední Evropě v 17. a 18. století

Kapitoly z dějin tělesné kultury

This new edition of the textbook for students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, contains basic data rel...

Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution

When communism was ushered into Czechoslovakia, it was supposed to last forever – yet over eleven days in November 1989, this supposedly ...

A Sociological Essay

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

Modernita a holocaust

Bauman understands the Holocaust as a “Jewish tragedy” but emphasizes its specific features that distinguish it from all other genocides....