Polynesian literature in English is defined as post-colonial literature written by Indigenous writers living in the former colonies of Great Britain in the geo-cultural area of Polynesia. It emerged in the 1960s as the articulation of the resistance of the Indigenous people against colonial hegemony and as the expression of their struggle for self-assertion. Polynesian […]
According to UNHCR data from 2020, there are 82 million displaced people in the world, 26 million are refugees. Amongst other lacking needs the access to education is limited and in many cased even non-existent, although education is a child’s right and plays a key role in their future. The focus on refugee education is […]
This monography is a theoretical and an interpretative study that deals with the genre of autobiography, its position in the contemporary literary theory and problems related to an interpretation of autobiographical texts. Autobiography as a genre of non-fictional literature refers to real characters and events, but at the same time it is a literary work […]
This volume brings together studies in comparative literature by the late Professor Oldřich Král (1930–2018). As translator, he left an enduring oeuvre of classical Chinese literature in Czech. He also authored History of Chinese Philosophy (2005). However, his theoretical studies were only to be found in various journals and miscellanies, and these are now published […]
This monograph follows the Paths of Polemic, or Significance and Transformations of the Genre of Polemic in the Czech Literature at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The studies, based on thorough analysis of the source materials, are focused, in a relative chronology and from a gradually changing point of view, using various […]
Journey Through the White Terror is an autobiography of Kang‑i Sun Chang, Professor at Yale University and an internationally renowned Sinologist. The book describes the childhood and youth years of the author during the so‑called White Terror period in Taiwan (1947–1987), as well as her emigration to the United States of America, where she was […]
The Czech Patron Saints in Early Modern Bohemian Hagiography: a Bibliography of Legends, Sermons, and Related Texts on the Patron Saints of Kingdom of Bohemia and Margraviate of Moravia printed in ca. 1550–1750. This publication deals with the issue of state or national patron saints (in Czech zemští patroni, in German Landespatronen), specifically the Czech […]
Since the beginnings of research into the Central European Iron Age, interactions of the region with the Mediterranean played an important role in the interpretation of various archaeological phenomena but also and importantly as narrative elements. However, they rarely became a subject of study in their own right. The present volume investigates the contacts between […]
The book presents the reader the richest corpus of Old Kingdom royal funerary domains. The core of the bood represents catalogue of funerary domains retrieved during recent archaeological works by Egyptian team at Sahura’s causeway and of related pehou regions. The introductory chapters provide the reader with the contex and the overview of other known […]
This book was conceived to commemorate the one‑hundredth anniversary of the death of the first professor of Oriental philology at the Czech University of Prague, Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920). Dvořák lectured on several Oriental languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Old Ethiopian, Chinese) and held seminars in which students read and critically interpreted texts written in these […]