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The article offers a detailed analysis of the poem “The Map” by Elizabeth Bishop. As the opening text of Bishop’s first collection and also of all the editions of her collected poems, the poem can be read as a statement of the poet’s creative principles. The close-reading of the poem stresses the importance of the various encounters examined in the poem: the map (and the poem) is seen as a border...
Ladislav Klíma was the controversial Czech author and thinker at the turn of the twentieth century. The study deals with a coexistence Klíma’s fiction texts and his philosophical works. In three fictions of Ladislav Klima are analyzed philosophical concepts, these concepts are compared with parallels from his philosophical works and interpretations by other authors. In this paper is used Klíma’s his...
Both analysed novels have a narrator who is uniquely positioned — Christopher, the narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in Mark Haddon’s novel, is an autistic teenager striving to solve the „murder“ of his neighbour’s dog. Samko, the narrator of Kniha o cintoríne by D. Kapitáňová, is an adult suffering from mild mental retardation. The aim of this article was to analyse the...
Dostoyevsky in his novel The Brothers Karamazov develops to unusual extend a play with the language material, with narrative principles, with the semantics of words. These techniques contain future predictions, returns to the past, the system of repetition and variations creating a great semantic space behind many expressions on the level of poetic positions. The wealth of the semantic perspectives,...
The study summarizes the first two Philip Roth’s books and their critical reception. Roth’s works are set in the context of the American society and literature of the late nineteen fiftieth and in the connection with Roth’s essay „Writing American Fiction“. Reading of Goodbye, Columbus as a story of Jew assimilation is refused; the crucial plot is the love story between Neil and Brenda. Both Roth’s...
The article presents the concept of language and pat by contemporary Russian philosopher Fedor Girenok. His critique of language and related symbol of pat constitute a part of broader critique pointed towards European rationalism. Overloading by texts, overconfidence in language and understanding the language as conceptual pattern that enables to perceive extra-language reality — these are the reasons...
This essay examines the cultural dynamics that were established at the outset of the Cold War, especially from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, that dictated the translation and production of poetry on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In 1959 the Czech poet Jan Zábrana (1931–1984) translated and edited an anthology of radical American poets, and by exploring the contexts of his editorial decisions we uncover...
Both texts present a systematic survey of two elementary analytical categories of Structuralist thought — binarity and opposition, especially in their semionarratological implications. In “Binarity”, one structuralist version of binary analysis is described as a decomposition “of the continuum of the observed world along universal relational axes constituting logical oppositions (contradictions)....
The study deals with the main tenets of Philip Sidney’s poetics on the basis of his The Defence of Poesy and his poetry (mainly Astrophil and Stella) in the context of Elizabethan considerations of the classical aesthetic concepts (especially that of Aristotle and Horace) and some of the Renaissance continental examples. Sidney’s Defence of Poesy represents a fundamental step in establishing poetry...
This article deals with the role of the literary topos of the city and its importance in the Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s novels. According to the Daniela Hodrová’s typology we attempt to demonstrate, through the analysis of some novels, that the Serna’s city is specified as “the city-subjec”. The author personifies the city and he fuses the soul of novel’s heroes with the local atmosphere. The protagonists...
The study is divided into three parts. The first discusses the common features of both poets: their lartpourlartism and opposition to the utilitarian conceptions of art. The second part focuses on a romantic iconology (sacrifice of the poet, its figures and symbols) used by Ch. Baudelaire and T. Gautier to represent a role of poetry as well as tragic situations of the contemporary subjects. The last...
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