The five-book treatise De institutione musica (Fundamentals of Music) by Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius (c. 480 – 524) is, with its more than one hundred and sixty manuscript occurrences, the most widely published music- -theoretical work of the European Middle Ages. Like other treatises by Boethius, De institutione musica is based upon earlier texts. […]
Jakub Rákosník, Jakub Vrba, Bohumil Melichar, Martin Dolejský (eds.) This critical edition brings together 94 texts published in the press of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia between 1921 and 1938. It is a selection from thousands of articles that appeared on the pages of hundreds of titles during the period under review, whose periodicity varied […]
Vojtěch Kinter This book examines the relationship between the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ladislav Klíma. The author is critical of Klíma’s popular label “Czech Nietzsche” which is at least conceptually anchored in scientific discourse about Klíma and explicitly used in a broader context. By criticizing the label, the author explores the extent of Nietzsche’s influence on Klíma […]
Matěj Klíma The monograph deals with the reception of Ladislav Klíma’s work and personality in Czech culture. It is divided into four sections. In the first one we focus on the reactions to his work during his lifetime. In addition to the reflection on the plays and published books, we also follow small magazine polemics […]
Ai Qing In the 20th century, Chinese poets turned their backs on classical models and sought inspiration from European and American avant-garde. Ai Qing (1910–1996) belongs to the second generation of Chinese modernists. He initially studied painting in France, but after returning to China, he made his mark as a poet, enriching Chinese poetry with […]
Marie Klimešová, Hana Rousová Czech visual art between 1947 and 1960 has never before been considered in a broader European context that avoids the stereotype of the “Iron Curtain”. At the same time, when looking at this period, certain clichés and stereotypes are repeatedly perpetuated, hindering the understanding of the true nature and position of […]
Milan Sovilj, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Boris Mosković (eds.) In recent years, the period of late socialism has become a primary focus in the historiography of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Historians are interested in various aspects of the “second half” of the Titoist era, in which one can find both the roots of the later […]
Olga Nádvorníková This book investigates the Czech transgressive, a non-finite verb form, which belongs to the converb category, as a potential linguistic indicator of normalisation and interference in translation. In this research we treat normalisation as a T-universal, i.e. as the difference between translated and non-translated texts in the same language (Czech), and we define […]
Siao Chung In “Stories from the Hulan River,” Chinese prose writer Xiao Hong (1911–1942) returns to the time of her childhood, which she spent in the town of Hulan in northeastern China. Xiao Hong died at the age of only thirty-one, but during her short life, she managed to write a number of remarkable works, […]
Konstantinos Tsivos This study traces the development of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) between the end of World War II and 1956. Special attention is paid to the period after the military defeat of the KKE in Greece (1949), which led to the relocation of KKE’s leadership and its core members to socialist exile. […]