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From Laughter to Forgetting. A Sourcebook of Czech Avant-Garde Discourses
A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde.
This book offers a wide-ranging selection of literary, theoretical, and documentary sources from one of the most dynamic and original European avant-garde traditions: that of the first Czechoslovak Republic and of the Bohemian lands. The Czech avant-garde is in many respects the ideal “alternative” avant-garde to present in detail to a wider readership: it tracks Central European developments and was often influential internationally while being deeply ingrained in particular cultural dynamics that produced original forms. This volume returns interwar Czech avant-garde writings to their place as a firmly embedded component of the European avant-garde.
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Český snář (sny roku 1979), Český snář (sny roku 1979) - komentáře a hlasy k Českému snáři
Author/Editor: Daniela Iwashita, Michal Kosák, Hana Kosáková, Petr Šámal, Ludvík Vaculík
Ludvík Vaculík's novel Český snář (A Czech Dreambook) can be read as an authentic statement about the crisis in which Czech society finds itself, forced to submit to totalitarian norms. In his work, Vaculík transforms the form of regular diary entries kept from 22 January 1979 to 2 February 1980 into an original novel form, in which the tension between truth and fiction plays a significant role. Published jointly by: Nadační fond Česká knižnice, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, Nakladatelství Host
The Culture of Neural Networks. Synthetic Literature and Art in (Not Only) the Czech and Slovak Context
Author/Editor: Zuzana Husárová, Karel Piorecký, Isabel Stainsby
A monograph on contextualization of the phenomenon of generating literary texts using the latest technologies. Publishing house: Karolinum Press: https://karolinum.cz/en/books/piorecky-the-culture-of-neural-networks-30719 Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS: https://ucl.cas.cz/produkt/the-culture-of-neural-networks/
Essays Commemorating Szmul Zygielbojm
Author/Editor: Michael Fleming
This book brings together papers that were presented at a workshop in May 2018 to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Szmul Zygielbojm’s protest suicide. The workshop was organised at The Polish University Abroad within the framework of an ongoing seminar series on twentieth century Polish history.5 The volume opens with a message from Zygielbojm’s grandsons, Dr Arthur I. Zygielbaum and Paul S. Zygielbaum, to participants of the workshop (see p. 11), in which they highlight the continuing relevance of their grandfather’s sacrifice (Michael Fleming, Introduction).
Grzegorz Moroz,A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature.Series:Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 93
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A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages. Grzegorz Moroz convincingly argues that, for all the similarities and cross-cultural influences, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century non-fiction Anglophone and Polish travel writing have dynamically evolved different generic horizons of expectations. While the Anglophone travel book developed relatively steadily in that period, the Polish genre of the podróż was first replaced by the listy (kartki) z podróży, and then by the reportaż podróżniczy.