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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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(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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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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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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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 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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European Journal of Life Writing, 2021 Autofictions and memoirs about growing up in late socialism have proliferated in Czech as well as in other postsocialist Eastern European literatures. These retrospective texts are often tinged with nostalgia and infused with irony and humour. Two of the
Anja Tippner
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Jan Hus in Czech Interwar Utopian Literature
Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2023 The article deals with the role of Jan Hus in utopian constructions of the Czech interwar literature. During this period, a “wave of utopianism” was observed in the Czech Republic, it was utopia (both negative and positive) that became an extremely ...
Anna Amelina
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L.N. Budagova and “Šrámkova Sobotka”
Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2023 The study deals with the relationship between the leading representative of the Bohemian studies in Russia L.N. Budagová, D.Sc. (1932–2022) and the Czech town of Sobotka and to the local festival of language, speech and literature called Šrámek´s Sobotka
Jan Bílek +2 more
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