Prague Egyptological Studies (PES) is a bi-annual double-blind peer-reviewed English journal prepared by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague. The journal was published regularly since 2002 in Czech, starting from 2015 also in English and since 2021 only in English. The journal accepts archaeological reports as well as original studies on […]
The Czech translation of the autobiography Cesta bílým terorem (Journey Through the White Terror) by Kang-i Sun Chang, a world-renown sinologist, has been published. The book recalls the period of persecutions in post-war Taiwan by giving the account of stormy family history. The preface was prepared by Prof Olga Lomová from the Department of Sinology at the Faculty […]
A new book by Jan Kysela (Institute of Classical Archaeology) investigates the contacts between Central Europe and the Mediterranean in the 4th–1st centuries BC 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 […]
Faculty of Arts Press, a publisher of 16 academic journals in the field of humanities, joined the Open Access programme in 2015. Readers can peruse the collection of journals which are now available online in the catalogue Journals 2021/20202. The catalogue provides brief descriptions of the thematic focus of the periodicals, useful contacts that include […]
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. […]
Rytíř, kterého jeho milenka přesvědčí, že by byl ženám ve skutečnosti daleko milejší, kdyby se vykastroval. Poutník do Svaté země, který se rozhodne vzít vážně výrok, že jeho srdce patří jeho milé, a dotáhne ho až do brutálně naturalistického konce. Žena, jež diskutuje s vlastním ohanbím o tom, co že vlastně muže na ženách přitahuje, […]
Petra Tušlová – Barbora Weissová – Stefan Bakardzhiev (eds.) The Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project investigated a Roman rural settlement located along the middle stream of the Tundzha River, in south-eastern Bulgaria (Roman province of Thrace). The main objectives of the project were the determination of the habitation dynamics of the settlement, the investigation of its […]
Olga Pavlova 2 + 2 = 5: Worlds of Anti‑utopian and Dystopian Literature is based on the text of the dissertation Theory of Petrified Worlds on the Example of Anti‑Utopian and Dystopian Literature, where the author deals with anti‑utopian and dystopian literature in comparative perspective. First of all the book focuses on the theoretical […]
David Skalický, Jan Wiendl (eds.) The joint publication entitled Shake, don’t stir! Between Literary Scholarship and Cultural Studies was published on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the literary scholar, historian and theorist of popular culture and columnist Peter A. Bílek. The book opens with a short story by the poet and prose writer […]
Miroslav Bárta and Vladimír Brůna (eds.) The principal aim of this publication is to provide interpretation of a high-resolution satellite images of all Old and Middle Kingdom pyramid sites in Egypt. The sites included in this Atlas represent to a large degree the principal sites of the Third through the Thirteenth Dynasty. Their particular characteristics […]
Jirásková, Lucie – Košárek, Petr – Macháček, Štěpán The book is mapping the history of Czech Egyptology especially through the photographs, which were taken in Egypt by the photographers of the former Czechoslovak, now Czech, Institute of Egyptology. It is structured in three basic chapters – decades, which include several groups of photographs for […]
Old-Norse literature is known to the Czech reader mainly because of texts with pagan themes: the mythological and heroic songs of the Elder Edda, the pagan Skaland poems and sagas of antiquity. Less well known is that after their Christianization in the 10th to 12th centuries, the ancient Northmen produced a whole range of literary […]
The volume focuses on different methods and strategies employed by individuals and/or communities when confronted with major changes in society and its reflection in the material culture. The first part concentrates on developments and transformations observable in New Kingdom private tombs commissioned by non-royal individuals in the three main cemeteries of the time – Amarna, […]
An exceptional international project that documents the greatest archaeological discoveries of Czech Egyptologists connected with the research of the Egyptian Abusir. Take the unique opportunity to see generous loans from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Great Egyptian Museum in Giza, but also from museums in Berlin, Leipzig, Hanover, Heidelberg, Hildesheim and Frankfurt am Main. […]
The anti-liberal turn in Central Europe aroused a lively scholarly discussion to which this book wishes to contribute by providing a novel perspective. The recent illiberal upsurge is often ascribed to weakly rooted liberalism in the context of an unfinished transition, or, conversely, to the completion of the transition process in which populists turn against […]
Hana Blažková Záměrem práce je analyzovat českou literární kritiku devadesátých let z hlediska politického čtení. V první části jsou představeny základní tendence polské literární kritiky tohoto období, které jsou vzhledem k českému kontextu použity jako kontrastní rastr, jenž problematizuje některé předpoklady naší literární historie. Ve druhé části jsou diskutovány pojmy politiky a policie (Rancière), depolitizace […]
Alenka Jensterle Doležal Kniha Mezikulturní dialog. Slovinské stopy v českém prostředí je monografií sestávající z třinácti studií zaměřených na slovinskou literaturu a slovinsko‑české vztahy. Příspěvky v první části („Česká slovenistika na Univerzitě Karlově v zrcadle dějin“) se zabývají slovenistikou a slavistikou na Univerzitě Karlově, zkoumají tedy určité oblasti mezikulturní komunikace mezi dvěma malými slovanskými národy […]
Petra Polláková Knižní studie se věnuje tématu kaligrafických inspirací v kontextu světových a českých dějin umění. Inspirace v oblasti čínské nebo japonské kaligrafie totiž výraznou měrou přispěly k rozvoji mezioborových přístupů, zejména v souvislosti s hledáním společných východisek malířské a básnické tvorby, ale také v prolínání výtvarného umění s hudební, taneční nebo filmovou oblastí. […]
Karolina Válová a kolektiv 100 František / Jorge Listopad (Sto let od narození básníka, spisovatele a divadelního režiséra Františka Listopada / Cem anos desde o nascimento do poeta, escritor e realizador de teatro Jorge Listopad) je česko‑portugalskou kolektivní monografií vydanou u příležitosti stého výročí narození Františka Listopada. Básník, spisovatel, novinář, pedagog, divadelní a filmový […]