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<\/a><\/p>\nPodoby exilu v \u017eidovsk\u00e9 literatu\u0159e a my\u0161len\u00ed (St\u0159edn\u00ed Evropa ve dvac\u00e1t\u00e9m stolet\u00ed a p\u0159esun do Ameriky)<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, Pavel Mervart, \u010cerven\u00fd Kostelec, 2022. See English version (Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought) <\/em>2021.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought<\/em> deals with the concept of exile on many levels \u2013 from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and later as far as America. The concept and forms of exile are analysed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted especially to the forms of inner exile. In Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought<\/em>, Bronislava Volkov\u00e1, an exile herself and thus intimately familiar with the topic through her own experience, develops a unique typology of exile that will enrich the field of intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century Europe and America.<\/span><\/p>\n The book was selected by the of Knowledge Unlatched Selection Committee 2020 (comprised of specialist subject librarians from all over the world) to be part of the \u201cKU Select Books Collection 2020, Humanities and Social Science\u201d as one of 343 titles worldwide selected for Open Access release.<\/span><\/p>\n The publication of the book was possible thanks to a grant from the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBronislava Volkov\u00e1\u2019s book is an unusual and thought-provoking project on the topic of exile, which delves into issues of human conditions (including extreme ones), states of mind and forms of revolt and ostracism. It also pursues the reasons that created the sick societies of the twentieth century. It shows exile\u2019s capacity to transform one\u2019s consciousness, come back to oneself and find true freedom and community in a wider sense of the word. These ideas are exemplified on outstanding Jewish writers and thinkers originating from a broad geographical area from Ukraine all the way to France. The study further points out the neglected and undervalued fact that the majority have found a refuge and realizalion in America.\u201d<\/span> \u201cA true tour de force of scholarship, close and nuanced reading of o broad range of major European authors and public figures including some who defined modernity with its complexities and discontents. Bronislava Volkov\u00e1\u2019s book both offers an in-depth analysis and an engaging synthesis of the pervasive twentieth century experience, condition, and trauma of exile. These most prominently entail identity challenges and imaginative ways to explore alienation, fear of deracination, and anxiety of identity and creativity loss. This fascinating new book convincingly proves how those fears and anxieties led to some of the most remarkable and consequential masterpieces of twentieth century creativity.\u201d<\/span> \u201cFew scholars have the knowledge of exile in all of its intricate dimensions that Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 exhibits so clearly and concisely in the pages of this book. Living for most of her life away from her native country and culture, she has found a home in literature, especially that of exiled Central European Jewish authors. For anyone interested in learning more about these writers and the transformative effect of territorial displacement, cultural dispossession, and internal exile, this book will serve as a masterful guide.\u201d<\/span> Academic Studie Press, Boston, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, IN, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n presents 65 selected Czech poets in English translation, together with their biographies. Co-translated and co-edited by Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 (Professor of Czech literature, Comparative literature and Jewish studies at Indiana University) and Clarice Cloutier (Assistant Professor of Central European literature and culture at New York University [Prague campus] and Lecturer at Charles University, Prague). The anthology features well-known poets alongside those who have not received well-deserved attention, female poets alongside males and exile poets alongside those who remained in Czechoslovakia under totalitarian regime. With Introduction by authors and Afterward by Alfred Thomas.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTo be frank, it takes an enormous deal of personal courage to undertake a project such as either history or anthology of one\u2019s own literature. Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 and Clarice Cloutier took a look at the Czech poetry today, set up limits, and created thirteen categories: Beginning with the middle of nineteenth century Czech poet Anton\u00edn Sova (1864-1928), they scanned the highlights of different phases of modern Czech poetry developments and went to work, thus opening the riches, and the marvels, of contemporary Czech poetry to any Czech or English-speaking interested reader all the way to contemporary Martin Reiner (born 1964)\u2026 this Slavica volume is a veritable walk through a garden of delights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n From the review by Ji\u0159ina Fuchsov\u00e1, poet, former lecturer at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Czech Dialogue<\/i>, 7-8, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cUp the Devil’s Back, a bilingual anthology of 20th-century Czech poetry<\/i> just hitting Prague bookstore shelves, is one of the more successful recent examples of such attempts at being definitive\u2026.. the monumental task of selecting and translating the work of 65 Czech poets and giving such eclectic diversity a sense of unity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n From the announcement by Stephan Delbos, Prague Post<\/i>, Dec 9, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n This anthology, containing 168 poems by 65 twentieth-century poets, most of which appear here in English for the first time, is absolutely indispensable for students and teachers of Czech literature and culture. It is also an enjoyable reading for anyone interested in poetry in general, or preparing for a trip to Prague. \u2026Volkov\u00e1 and Cloutier deserve praise for accomplishing the admirable feat of compiling the most complete poetry anthology ever published in English. It is more objective and reliable than its outdated predecessors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n From the review by Kirsten Lodge, Columbia University, SEEJ<\/i> 2010<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York, 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n This study presents alternative views on major works and authors of Czech and Central European literature in a feminist and non-elitist perspective. It examines the cultural biases expressed in selected major works and the underlying (subconscious) values of their authors. Using a semiotic approach, it gives detailed attention to the hidden emotive meaning of the texts. Themes include authors\u2019 attitudes to relationships between women and men, the images of women in both older and contemporary Czech literature, nationalistic biases, issues of responsibility, active versus passive approach to life, new visions added to European culture by Czech authors like J.A. Comenius, K.H. M\u00e1cha, B. N\u011bmcov\u00e1, J. Ha\u0161ek, K \u010capek, O. B\u0159ezina, J. Seifert, B. Hrabal, M. Kundera, L. Vacul\u00edk and others<\/span>.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026the work of a mature versatile scholar\u2026 The selection of topics and the structuring of this manuscript reflect the variety of her intellectual concerns as well as a personal, often bold, insight into Czech culture. While her semiotic approach to the literary text is in the great tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, her feminist angle brings in a much needed new perspective\u2026 At a time when Czech culture and literature are receiving a richly deserved, if unprecedented attention in American Universities, Volkova\u2019s manuscript fills a large gap. It brings together a wealth of knowledge and insight within a format shaped by an original sensibility. By blending her reflections on broad cultural themes with detailed, sophisticated readings of the original texts, Volkova has written a book that will prove as valuable to the undergraduate as to the most advanced students of Czech culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Maria M\u011bmcov\u00e1 Banerjee, Smith College, Northampton<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c\u2026Discusses well-known works with the fresh, level-headed approach of a contemporary highly intelligent woman scholar whose argument is incisive, but never restricted or burdened by humorless ideological feminism\u2026 different scholarly analytical tools \u2013 those of semiotics, emotive signs and semantics \u2013 not only show Dr. Volkova\u2019s close familiarity with these aspects of literary criticism, but also deepen the reader\u2019s perception of an important aspect of Czech literature and culture: its lyrical quality\u2026 Particularly for students of the lyric these chapters are bound to be of major interest, for others they reveal another significant aspect of Czech literature. \u2026The carefully prepared bibliography at the end of the study is very useful indeed\u2026 renders a most valuable service not only to students and scholars of Czech and Central European literatures and culture, but also to comparatists, historians of ideas as well as the general intelligent reader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n Interviews with four prominent Czech writers and poets (Eva Kant\u016frkov\u00e1, Jana \u0160troblov\u00e1, Milan Uhde and J\u00e1chym Topol) at the Conference for Czech Literature in New York, March of 1990 on the occasion of the Velvet Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n (published under the name of Bronislava Volek), John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n This theory of emotivity is based on the notion of language as a superstructure of heterogeneous subsystems which are linked in various ways in each individual use of a linguistic item and create a unique hierarchical \u201csurface\u201d structure from it. This conception of language as a superstructure of heterogeneous subsystems emerges from the structuralist-functional approach of the Prague School.\u2026\u201dIt is evident that Volek has produced a valuable, thought-provoking, and skillfully-executed piece of work which represents real progress in the investigation of its subject matter. Her analysis of emotive signs provides a much clearer picture than heretofore available of their semantic structure because it considers the contribution to their meaning of lexical morphemes as well as grammatical. Her discussion of semantic and pragmatic context is especially useful in revealing the enormous potential of emotive signs in particular and the linguistic sign in general.\u201dMark J. Elson, University of Virginia, Slavic and East European Journal<\/i>, 1990, No. 2<\/span> \u2026\u201dThat \u2018emotive\u2019 and \u2018evaluative\u2019 are two different things is especially stressed by Volek. Her book Emotive Signs in Language<\/i> (1987) represents by far the best publication on the topic of emotivity and lexicon\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Fritz Hermanns, Heidelberg (Germany), \u201cDimension of Meaning III: Aspects of Emotion\u201d, in Lexicology<\/i> (An international handbook on the nature and structure of words and vocabularies), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2002.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Podoby exilu v \u017eidovsk\u00e9 literatu\u0159e a my\u0161len\u00ed (St\u0159edn\u00ed Evropa ve dvac\u00e1t\u00e9m stolet\u00ed a p\u0159esun do Ameriky), Pavel Mervart, \u010cerven\u00fd Kostelec, 2022. See English version (Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought) 2021. Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought Forms of Exile in Jewish <\/a><\/span>Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Mark\u00e9ta Goetz-Stankiewicz, Professor Emerita, Department of Germanic Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Dov-Ber Kerler, Cohn Chair of Yiddish Studies and Professor of Jewish and Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Alvin Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Director of Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Up the Devil\u2019s Back \/ Po h\u0159bet\u011b d’\u00e1bla: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th<\/sup> Century Czech Poetry<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/b><\/b>A Feminist\u00b4s Semiotic Odysey trough Czech literature<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n