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Zaklęcie, zamówienie, zażegnanie. Magiczna moc słów w folklorze słowiańskim

The modern romantic in the world of ghosts. Gothic traditions in Jan Bittner's novel Deník kastelána

Romanticism, one of the most important philosophical and artistic periods in modern European culture, was never the mainstream tradition in Czech literature. Nor did the Gothic novel influence this literature in a signi…

Romanticism as a pseudo-literary and pseudo-historical label used in discussions and literary polemics in interwar Czechoslovakia

The article deals with the specific presence of the term romanticism in the interwar period (1918-1939) in Czechoslovakia. In the introduction, the author stresses the lack of a precise definition of the term as well as…

Mácha in the avant-garde theatre of E. F. Burian

This essay is devoted to the Czech avant-garde stage-adapter from the 1930's and 1940's, Emil František Burian and his theatre D34 (also called "Dečko"). Burian adapted the output of the romantic poet, Karel Hynek Mácha…

Kontury máchovského mýtu

In 2010, Czech culture celebrates the 200-year anniversary of the birth of Karel Hynek Mácha, the Czech romantic poet. The early reactions to Mácha´s works were for the most part rejections: national culture did not wan…

Romantic codes in the novels written by Miodrag Bulatović

The paper identifies the romantic codes that are activated in the organization of the novels of Miodrag Bulatovic, relying on the theoretical assumptions of Aleksandar Flaker about the stylistic formation of romanticism…

Ghosts, ghouls, doubles..."Romantic" transgressions in the novel Podobojí by Daniela Hodrová

This article concentrates on the problem of transgression in the novel Podobojí by Daniela Hodrová. This problem is tracked from the perspective of romantic and post-romantic references to the literary and historical tr…

Kontynuacja czy odrzucenie?

The Romantic tradition and the fantastic short story in Macedonian literature

The fantastic short story in Macedonian literature has developed along lines typical for fantastic literature in general; through the folklore collections made by Marko Cepenkov, it leads to modern artistic literature,…

Icons of Serbian Romanticism as heroes of contemporary popular literature

The paper discusses the presence of two icons of Serbian romanticism in contemporary culture. The male icon, Petar Petrovic Njegos (1813-1851), and the female one, Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja (1828-1878), are presented…

The presence of Romanticism: what and how does Danny Smi-řický read?

The main purpose of the article is to identify and recognize ways of reinterpretating romantic heritage throughout a wide historical and literary context. The thesis concentrates on a novel written by Josef Škvorecký, e…

Zrození autobiografického subjektu. Máchův intimní deník a moderní básnické deníky ve vztahu k romantické ideji subjektivismu

My text is an attempt to apply Charles Taylor's theory, dealing with the origins of the modern self, to Czech autobiographical literature originating in Romanticism. Taking a cue from Jean Starobinski and Philippe Lejeu…

Romanticism in the history of Croatian literature

The paper researches the way romanticism is reconstructed and interpretated in three books on the history of Croatian literature (Ježić, Frangeš Jelčić). In the analysis of selected histories of Croatian literature, thr…

Sadistic frenzy in Czech literature: Křesadlo, Zykmund, Urban

In Czech literature of the second half of 20th century a sadistic frenzy is present in several few novels by Jan Křesadlo, Václav Zygmunt and Miloš Urban. Although Czech writers do not copy the work of Marquise de Sade,…

Tracing the Romantic creation of character in Croatian poetry of the end of the 20th century. From vampire to consumer

One of the distinctive traits of Romantic literature was its frenetic feverishness and frightening otherness, the embodiment of which was, among many other beings, the vampire. This character in neo-Romantic contexts wa…

Jan Čep's fascinations and inspirations of Karel Hynek Mácha

Among various Čep's literary fascinations, Karel Hynek Mácha retains an important place. The Romantic writer (Mácha) and the 20th century Catholic novelist (Čep) are connected mainly by the same conception of a man in h…

Elitist or egalitarian spelling? The Romantic dilemmas

Spelling is not just a problem for students, it is also a serious political issue. This especially concerns the time when the standard literary languages are formed. The problem of spelling also appears when there are i…

Theological nomadism. Poet(h)ics and politics of the uncanny sublime in Delimir Rešicki's poetry

The poetry written by the Croatian poet Delimir Rešicki is associated with some of the more influential concepts of the Romantic poets. The paper analyzes the method by which Rešicki develops Christlike motives as a mod…

Neo-Romantic concepts of imagination in Croatian National Revival writings and in Croatian War of Independence poetry

The paper attempts to shed light on the concept of imagination and its formative role in imagining collective identities such as gender, religion or nation in literary, journalistic and programmatical texts written by C…

Zeyer znovu objevovaný. Julius Zeyer, lumírovský básník v duchovním dění Evropy, edičně připravili Jiří Kudrnáč, Luisa Nováková, Zuzana Urválková, Michal Fránek, Miroslava Novotná a Tereza Riedlbauchová, HOST, Brno 2009

Progi, pasaże, granice w kulturach słowiańskich, pod redakcją naukową Anny Gawareckiej i Mieczysława Balowskiego

Výpravy do země jiných vad. Český (ne)romantizmus očima polských publicistů

The Romantic poets and Post-War Serbian poetry

The pathetic or melancholy tone of Serbian Romanticism was quite unacceptable for modern poets who preferred irony, oxymoron, contrast, and a disharmonic world image. In the poetry of Stevan Raičković and Desanka Maksim…

Mollusques Aplacophores, Polyplacophores, Scaphopodes et Bivalves

The Arago Laboratory has compiled a fauna file for the Banyuls region and the Pyrénées-Orientales department. This booklet focuses on "Mollusques Aplacophores, Polyplacophores, Scaphopodes et Bivalves".

Opisthobranches

The Arago Laboratory has compiled a fauna file for the Banyuls region and the Pyrénées-Orientales department. This booklet focuses on opisthobranchs.