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Th e paper argues that we should diff erentiate between explicitly and implicitly political novels and the politicization of novels, the latter being a result of symptomatic interpretation (Culler). Th is diff erentiation helps preserve the discriminating sense of (sub) genre distinctions as an awareness of these categories makes the reader more sensitive to all kinds of manipulations of genre rules. Political novels should be recognized by the predominance of political motifs (setting, characters, themes, dialogue, agenda and confl ict). Implicitly political novels lack explicit political motifs, but advocate the need for some kind of political commitment and political reform. Th e individual categories are illustrated using examples of 19th-century American novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over more than fifty years of its existence, and particularly since the 1990s, the genre of Neo-Victorian fiction has gained in popularity, readership, status and prestige not only in Britain but worldwide. Its definition and delineation, however, have undergone certain evolution over the past three decades which, understandably, has included a number of substantial metamorphoses. Ian McGuire's novel, The North Water (2016), is set in Victorian England and tells a story of a fraudulent whaling expedition to the Arctic Circle. Although in its portrayal of a moral conflict between good and evil, or more precisely, between fallible responsibility and ultimate selfishness, The North Water follows the Conradian tradition rather than that of a conventional mainstream Victorian narrative, this article argues that the novel in fact represents a distinct example of Neo-Victorian fiction which complies with the more recent development of this genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Czechoslovak Republic became one of the major destination countries for many Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian emigrants in the 1920s as a result of its programme of state support. In the life of the post-revolutionary émigré community, which had lost contact with its homeland, language and culture, publishing activity was extremely important. Among the Russian-language publishing houses established in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period, Plamja, which was founded in Prague and led by Jevgenij Alexandrovič Ljackij (1868-1942), was one of the most prominent. In the years of its activity, between 1923 and 1935, it published over a hundred book titles and had offices in several European cities, and also Harbin in China. Its publishing projects included professional, academic, informational and art literature, book catalogues, postcards and bibliographical periodicals (the weekly Ogni and the monthly Slavjanskaja kniga). The Plamja project was one of the most significant publishing ventures of the Russian diaspora of its time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay analyses the literary and visual art works of the Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor and writer Josef Váchal (1884g1969), particularly his Šumava umírající a romantická (The romance of the dying Bohemian Forest, 1928g31), from the perspective of ecopoetics. Its starting point is the approach taken in the work of the literary theorist Lawrence Buell (b.1939). The essay reveals ecological dimensions of Váchal's works, in particular the close link between the woodcut, a technique he used for this and other works, and the organic processes that formed the character of this old-growth forest. The essay also places Váchal's approach into the wider contexts and efforts of the Avantgarde in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere between the two world wars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study maps a relationship between famous writer of adventure books Jaroslav Foglar and Czech tramps. Based on that, it formulates a thesis on the hybrid character of Czech “tramping", a backto- nature movement originated in the 1920s, during the second half of the 20th century. As the main causes were identified the difficult approach to its own history for generations born in 1940s and 1950s and the state's interest to influence youth in the frame of unified socialist education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on describing the samizdat situation in the Tábor region while attempting to portray some of the sociocultural aspects of independent publishing activity on the "periphery". Local examples of these phenomena (with such series as JITROcel, Anýz, Jiří Novotný and friends' workshops, magazines such as Studánka, Akát and Obálka, as well as Jiřina Zemanová's Prostor) are used to reveal the importance of the subculture (in this case the "tramping" or backpacking subculture) as a medium for alternative culture and the social networks and links which create these communities and which influence both distribution and reception among readers. Other characteristics of samizdat in the regions included its apolitical nature and the interconnections with the Prague samizdat centre. In addition to samizdat activity, the backpacking community in the Tábor region also arranged amateur music shows and independent exhibitions in unofficial premises such as private homes and chalets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the first attempts to write a history of camping. Against a background of the struggle between the communist and the so-called non-political campers Bob Hurikán wrote a book focusing on the topography of the settlements which affected subsequent perception of the history of camping. Bob's work was to be counterbalanced by a book written by Géza Včelička, but due to the death of the author it remained unfinished. It nevertheless offers some illuminating insights about the origins and the development of this subculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a recapitulation of the wartime and immediate postwar activities of poet and artist Otta Mizera, this heuristically-based article focuses on the final years of his life (1948-1952), which he spent in Paris. The main aim is to show that in spite of the very limited extent of the available sources it is relatively easy to demolish the romantic myth associated with Mizera during this period. The documentary evidence is derived primarily from the ParalUle 50 review -- the history of which is briefly presented in the text -- where one can find both the author's article on Czech and Slovak art and reports documenting Mizera's artistic activity in Paris. With reference to the obituary in the émigré journal Tribuna, the date and location of Mizera's voluntary death is clarified here for the first time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]