Faculty of Arts Press, a publisher of 15 academic journals in the field of humanities, joined the Open Access program in 2015. Readers can peruse the collection of journals which are now available online in the catalogue Journals 2020. The catalogue provides brief descriptions of the thematic focus of the periodicals, useful contacts, including links to […]

The current offer of one hundred eBooks from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University is now being enlarged by more than 50 eBooks from five different editions (Fontes, Humanitas, Mnemosyne, Trivium and Opera) that represent the top quality academic work from the faculty. All titles are now available via EBSCOhost Collection Manager. Faculty of […]

Aimed at international, non-Czech readers as well as Czech audience, the new monograph by Mirna Šolić In Search of a Shared Expression examines Karel Čapek’s travel writing from different theoretical perspectives, and contextualises it within Czech and European interwar modernist travel writing poetics, and explores the links with visual art of the period. Karel Čapek (1890-1938) wrote […]

The History of Contemporary Czech Poetry (Storia della poesia ceca contemporanea), the first book by Italian Bohemist and Russianist Angelo M. Ripellino, appeared in four hundred numbered copies in Rome in 1950. It was a period in which many of the poets, critics and artists the author was writing about were persecuted by the Communist regime and left for forgotten. […]