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The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader
This is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity.
Janáček's Works
This is the fullest catalogue in any language of the works of the great Czech composer Leo%s Jan %cek. The entry for each work includes detailed information on date of composition, source of texts, performing forces, duration, manuscript locations, publication, performances and production, dedication, and literature. The catalogue also includes a complete annotated edition of the composer's writings.
The Rough Guide to Opera
Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.
The Athenaeum
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Passed Away
It is book about the process of destruction. The cemetery is a place where it is possible to watch the process of destruction like a movie through the peephole of a nickelodeon. In the cemetery, the process of destruction comes into being and when we take a photo herefor example, of memorials or flowerswe flick through these photos, starting from fresh flowers and finishing with dead stalks inside the vase. Browsing, through these pictures quickly, suddenly we see a movie, a movie of destruction. The cemetery is a place where the process of destruction is absolute; here is the destruction of everything, not only the human body, but of absolutely everything that is in the cemetery at that tim...
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malečková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in other countries, including the European fascination with the Orient, images of “the Turk,” contemporary scholarship, and racial theories. The Czechs were not free from colonial ambitions either, as their attitude to Bosnia-Herzegovina demonstrates, but their viewpoint was different from that found in imperial states and among the peoples who had experienced Ottoman rule. The book convincingly shows that the Czechs mainly viewed the Turks through the lenses of nationalism and Pan-Slavism – in solidarity with the Slavs fighting against Ottoman rule.
The Coasts of Bohemia
A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from its origins through approximately 1960.
The Story of Prague
"The Story of Prague" is a book that discusses the history of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. The book contains the history of Prague at its earliest period, from the reigns of Charles IV to the executions at Prague in 1621, through Walks and Excursions near Prague. It is an informative book that tells the history of this incredible city with adequate annotations and illustrations.
