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(Un)Familiar Jewishness in the Work of Jiří Weil [PDF]

Slovo a Smysl, 2022
Jiří Weil (1900–1959), the Czech writer of Jewish origin, is known primarily for his works of fiction dealing with the experience of the Shoah, both in the form of short stories and his celebrated novels Život s hvězdou (Life with a Star, 1949) and Na ...
Marie Brunová
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Juvenile Literature, Does It Know Any Frontiers? (Between Tradition and Transposition in Czech Literature for Young Readers) [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2020
This article deals with the history of Czech children’s and juvenile literature and its tradition in both national and European contexts. It examines foreign authors (French, German, Russian, English, American, and some others) and their works translated
Kveta Kunesova
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The Metrics of Four Czech Poets in Russian Translations

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
The paper considers the poetry of four Czech authors – František Gellner, Viktor Dyk, Karel Toman, and Fráňa Šrámek – in their Russian-language translations.
Ksenia Tveryanovich, Robert Kolár
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Metre and Semantics in the Poetry of Czech Post-Symbolists Accessed via LDA Topic Modelling

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2022
The article deals with the relationship between semantics and poetic meter in the works of Czech post-symbolist poets and their predecessors. We access the phenomena by means of a machine-driven meter recognition on one hand and LDA topic modelling on ...
Petr Plecháč, Robert Kolár
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La Belle Juive: The Myth of the Beautiful Jewess in Czech Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century [PDF]

Slovo a Smysl, 2022
In the Czech culture of the turn of the 20th century we can see the phenomenon of the orientalising of the Jewish populace, in which the archetype of the beautiful Jewess (la belle Juive) occupied a significant and somewhat different position. This study
Vojtěch Smutný
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The Image of the City in the Novels of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic

Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2022
Fin-de-Siècle Europe appears in the prose of the Czech poet and writer Jiři Karasek from Lvovice (1871–1951) as a mystical space full of nostalgia and claustrophobia, which force the characters to experience the hereditary involvement of history. This is,
Alexey Kolianov
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The Reception of the Life and Work of Franz Kafka in Philip Roth’s Non-Fiction Writings [PDF]

Slovo a Smysl, 2022
Philip Roth made no secret of his great admiration for the work of Franz Kafka, which ultimately brought him to Prague in the 1970s and fostered his interest in Czech culture.
Michal Sýkora
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On the Current State of Research in Czech Baroque Homiletics with Focus on Methodology (Past and Present Research;a Summary of Research Tasks and Issues)

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2023
The study summarizes findings by Michaela Hashemi (Horáková) on homiletic texts of the early modern age, specifically the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century, with respect to the research context of the Czech environment.
Michaela Soleiman pour Hashemi
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Christian Motives in Selected Works with Homosexual Themes in Czech Literature

Journal of Language and Literature, 2023
The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relationship between Christianity and homosexuality based on selected fiction texts by Czech writers and poets (Zeyer, Fuks, Kuběna, Georgiev).
Milan Mašát
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Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity”. Moscow, 25–26 May 2021. Section “Literary studies. The History of Culture”

Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2021
The annual conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity” is a good platform for young researchers from different universities and research centers, both domestic and foreign, where they can share their scholarly achievements with colleagues and talk
Natalia A. Lunkova
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