Publisher: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství

6.94 €

Problematic Aspects of Prefixation in Spanish

Aspectos problemáticos de la prefijación en español

Author(s): Petr Stehlík / Language(s): Spanish

Keywords: Spanish language; prefixation; traditional definition of prefix; morpheme; lexis;

The monograph aims to provide a clear and concise insight into theoretical problems related to prefixation in modern Spanish. Besides the explanation of some phenomena that contradict the traditional definition of prefix as an unstressed morpheme that does not change the lexical category of the base, special attention is paid to the still open debate on the status of prefixation (i.e. if it can be considered a type of derivation or compounding) and to the problematic classification of the Greek and Latin bound roots (the so-called prefixoids).

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33.80 €

Yugoslavia – Serbia – Kosovo: Kosovo issue in 20th century

Jugoslávie – Srbsko – Kosovo: Kosovská otázka ve 20. století

Author(s): Václav Štěpánek / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Yugoslavia; Serbia; Kosovo; Kosovo issue; Albanian majority; Serbian minority; Balkans; 20th century; Albanian issue; Kosovo autonomy;

Kosovo issue represents a comprehensive complex of problems and issues, ensuing from troubles involving the coexistence of provincial Albanian majority and Serbian minority, residing at small common territory situated in the middle of Balkans. The submitted monograph describing the Kosovo issue covers the entire 20th century. Wherever it may be necessary, we strive to disclose deeper roots of some phenomena, or in cases, where an interpretation of certain development trends may remain unclear without elucidating their historical past. It specifies trials of Yugoslavian establishment to resolve “Albanian issue” in interwar royal Yugoslavia and during WW II. Commonalty of the publication then analyses genesis, development, and functioning of Kosovo autonomy in communist Yugoslavia since 1945 to 1990. Reflections of these events were given based on detailed studying of archival resources.

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8.26 €

Contributions to the history of French philosophy of society

Příspěvky k dějinám francouzské filozofie společnosti

Author(s): Ivana Holzbachová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: French philosophers; history of philosophy; philosophy of 18th and 19th century; Montesquieu; Voltaire; E. Durkheim; social philosophy; philosophy of history;

The book focuses on three major French philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries: Ch.-L. Montesquieu, Voltaire and E. Durkheim. The selection show the continuity of the author’s interest in French historiographic school – Annales, which frequently referred to Voltaire and Durkheim as scholars who focused on history in a wider, socio-cultural sense. Although Montesquieu is not considered as predecessor of Annales, it would be a mistake to read Voltaire without the context of his great contemporary. Besides that, we can see Montesquieu as a social-political thinker, whom some consider to be a predecessor of sociology and who pointed out deeper foundations of historical events. We must not forget about his introduction of the concept of objective law society and its history, which relates him with Durkheim.

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20.83 €

Critical history of Spanish Gipsy lexicography

Historia crítica de la lexicografía gitano-española

Author(s): Ivo Buzek / Language(s): Spanish

Keywords: Spanish Gipsy lexicography; theoretical lexicography; Spanish language; Spanish Gypsy dictionaries; lexis; 16th-19th century;

Publication deals with critical history of Spanish Gypsy lexicography. In first place, it pays attention to the theoretical lexicography and it applies its rules, mainly from the area of lexicographical criticism, to the corpus of Spanish Gypsy dictionaries. The main part of the book presents a critical study of repertoires of lexical units of this mixed dialect, starting from the 16th and 18th centuries manuscripts, 19th century amateur lexicographers’ dictionaries and ending up with 20th century ones. Final chapters look closely to Spanish Gypsy vocabularies and lists of lexical units present in publications about flamenco and Spanish Gypsies in general.

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14.88 €

Changes of the World Model in Russian Prose in the late 19th and early 20th Century

Proměny modelu světa v ruské próze na přelomu XIX. a XX. století

Author(s): Josef Dohnal / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Russian literature; prose; 19th and 20th century; literary works; Russian writers; changes in content and form of literature;

The monograph centres on the changes in content and form in Russian literature at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. The first part of the monograph discusses the roots of the shift in the system of values and in the concept of the individual in comparison with 19th-century Russian prose, and shows differences in the models of the world presented by literary works of the period. The second part of the monograph explores particular phenomena in the work of V. Bryusov, L. N. Andreyev, L. N. Tolstoy, I. Shmelyov, S. N. Sergeev-Censkij and F. Sologub in relation to the work of F. Kafka and R. Musil.

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9.92 €

A Comparison of 20th Century Theories of Style (in the Context of Czech and British Scholarly Discourses)

A Comparison of 20th Century Theories of Style (in the Context of Czech and British Scholarly Discourses)

Author(s): Michal Křístek / Language(s): English

Keywords: Scholarly discourse; theories of style; stylistics; British and Czech scholarly discourses; linguistics; literary theory; Czech and English studies;

The book is focused on a comparison of theoretical approaches to issues of style, in the context of Czech and Anglo-Saxon (especially British) scholarly discourses. The aim was to show and compare different methodological approaches based on different theoretical bases – for this reason, two different cultural contexts were selected, attention being paid also to mutual contacts within these contexts. The 20th century was chosen intentionally, as the period during which, in both of the respective contexts, stylistics was constituted as a modern scholarly discipline rooted in the fields of linguistics and literary theory. The book is aimed at members of academic communities, at teachers as well as at students, especially at those focusing on Czech and English studies.

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20.66 €

Professional theatre in Brno, 1668-1733

Berufstheater in Brünn 1668–1733

Author(s): Margita Havlíčková / Language(s): German

Keywords: Theatre in Brno; professional theatre; baroque period; 1668-1733; local history; Baroque theatre;

German-language monograph on professional theatre in Brno during the baroque historical period is based on original research of so far unreflected and unpublished archival sources stored in the Brno archives. Thanks to the topic with numerous important overlaps the local history of professional theatre in Brno is included into the large context of Baroque theatre in Central Europe. The Czech edition of the book (2009) was received with enthusiasm in professional circles and superlative reviews in professional journals. The German version comes after repeated requests from foreign experts.

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Regional Security Interdependence: Proceedings of the Workshop Organized by the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University in Brno on 25 September 2015

Regional Security Interdependence: Proceedings of the Workshop Organized by the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University in Brno on 25 September 2015

Author(s): Miroslav Mareš,Tomáš Šmíd,Tomáš Kaválek,Iveta Hlouchová,Martin Laryš,Tomáš Bělonožník,Lukáš Visingr / Language(s): English

Keywords: Regional security; International relations; Turkey; Erbil; Baghdad; Economic policy; Security; Iran; Afghanistan; Russia; Slovakia; foreign policy;

Contemporary security development is characterized by growing interdependence of security phenomena at local, national, regional and global level (Kegley, Wittkopf 2006). Within the world regions regional security complexes with their regional security orders were established (Stewart-Ingersoll, Frazier: 2012). The so called “new definition”of the regional security complex is related to „a set of units whose major processes of securitization, desecuritization or both are so interlinked that their security problems cannot reasonably be analyzed or resolved apart from one another“ (Buzan, Waever, de Wilde 1997: 201)“.

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12.40 €

Mobile work of Michel Butor

L’oeuvre mobile de Michel Butor

Author(s): Kateřina Sedláčková / Language(s): French

Keywords: Michel Butor; French literature; fine arts; literature; art and writing; artwork and poetic language;

This work defines the creative principles of Michel Butor’s less-known writings that are based on experiment, poetizing and interaction with fine arts. It analyses hundreds of texts and art sources and focuses on the five-part Illustrations cycle, pointing out Butor’s most important creative techniques: intertextuality, which deals with an innovative use of citations and rewriting not only other authors’ but especially his own texts; and intermediality, dealing with an interaction between fine arts and literature. It presents Butor’s transposition of an aesthetical effect provoked by an artwork into a poetic language. The analyses and theoretical reflections are placed into the broad context of Butor’s work, with an emphasis on theoretical issues and on the continuity of procedures throughout his work.

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16.53 €

Bosnia in Croatian national-integrational ideologies of the 19th century

Bosna v chorvatských národně-integračních ideologiích 19. století

Author(s): Petr Stehlík / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatian national-integrational ideologies; Bosnian-Croatian relations; 19th century; Croatian nation; political history; national status of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

The work comprehensively characterizes and assesses the status and role of Bosnia in Croatian national integration ideologies, which greatly contributed to the formation of modern Croatian nation in the 19th century (Illyrism, Yugoslavism, “Pravaštvo“). The text is written from a historical perspective and based on the comparative analysis of political and literary sources of the time. Although Bosnia has been a subject of interest for practically all generations of Croatian politicians, no similar work has been written so far, describing the transformations and constant ideas about the historical, political and national status of Bosnia, outlining the creation of the image of Bosnia and its inhabitants in the Croatian milieu.

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11.98 €

New Messengers: Short Narratives in Plays by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and August Wilson

New Messengers: Short Narratives in Plays by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and August Wilson

Author(s): Tomáš Kačer / Language(s): English

Keywords: New messenger; traditional drama; contemporary mainstream drama; plays; British playwrights; African-American playwright;

The publication introduces the “new messenger” as a specific type of dramatic character, a follower of the conventional „messenger“ whose presence in traditional drama serves several purposes, which the new messenger also fulfills. What makes it different is the fact that it is not an independent character, but the role it has is assumed by major characters in contemporary mainstream drama, such as journalists and reporters, politicians and their assistants, scientists and teachers, detectives and police officers, historical characters, philosophers and literary scholars, etc. The publication provides examples of the use of this type in a series of case studies of plays by two British playwrights Michael Frayn and Tom Stoppard, and an African-American playwright August Wilson.

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24.79 €

Hastabhinaya: Hand gestures in traditional theatre art of India

Hastábhinaja: Gesta rukou v tradičním divadelním umění Indie

Author(s): Šárka Havlíčková Kysová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Hastabhinaya; hand gestures; traditional theatre art; Indian theatre; traditional acting style; language system;

The monograph “Hand Gestures in Traditional Indian Theatre” deals with a traditional Indian acting style, particularly with hand gestures. Its focus lies in a specific form of actor-viewer communication, a communication conducted by means of mudras, or symbolic hand positions. Mudras make up an autonomous language system that can express every single thought or emotion. The research is based on ancient and contemporary theatre literature in Sanskrit, English and French, chiefly on poetics and acting manuals, and on contemporary practice of traditional theatre and dance in India. The most important sources of the research were the kootiyattam and kathakali theatres.

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11.98 €

From Rhetoric to Aesthetics: Wit and Esprit in the English and French Theoretical Writings of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries

From Rhetoric to Aesthetics: Wit and Esprit in the English and French Theoretical Writings of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries

Author(s): Klára Bicanová / Language(s): English

Keywords: Rhetoric; aesthetics; theory of literature; wit and esprit; British literature; French literature; 17th century; 18th century;

The thesis deals primarily with the term wit and its modern and historical usage in literary and aesthetic theories. Further, it concerned with the literary and aesthetic implications of the terms wit and esprit as they were theorized in critical writings of several authors of the early modern England and France. The thesis has two primary goals. The first goal is to re-assess the English concept of wit, nowadays regarded as an out-dated device of past poetic systems, and to present it as vital and useful part of the contemporary discourse. The second goal is to provide comparative reading of early modern English and French theoretical texts dealing with wit and esprit, respectively. Presenting ideas on the English term wit as employed in the theoretical writings in the light of its French equivalent esprit, I wish to demonstrate a gradual development of the terms from rhetoric to aesthetic.

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20.66 €

Central Bohemian-Moravian Highlands on the threshold of the High Middle Ages: Archaeology, geochemistry and the analyses of alluvial sediments

Centrální Českomoravská vrchovina na prahu vrcholného středověku. Archeologie, geochemie a rozbory sedimentárních výplní niv.

Author(s): Petr Hrubý,Petr Hejhal,Karel Malý,Petr Kočár,Libor Petr / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Central Bohemian-Moravian highlands; high middle ages; archaeology; geochemistry; medieval settlements;

The book presents the synthesis of the environmental and archaeological approaches which can answer a principally historical questions related to the uprise of the high mediaeval settlement structure but also of the beginnings of the gold and silver exploitation in the project base area. The book offers structured data to the mediaeval development in the region which is still lacking direct archaelogical evidence in many areas. A low and sometimes difficult detectability of early deforestation, settlement and a whole spectre of the mining activities is compensated by archaeoenvironmental, geochemical and archaeometallurgical analytics of the alluvial sediments in this territory.

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14.55 €

Aesthetic Concepts: An Analytical Approach

Pojmy estetiky: analytický přístup

Author(s): Rostislav Niederle / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Aesthetics; theory of art criticism; analytic aesthetics;

The text introduces concepts which are in a way related to the conception of Aesthetics as the theory of art criticism. Through argumentation, the text aims at the integration into the wide stream of analytic Aesthetics. The writing method has two aspects: an explication of historical facts on the one hand, an analysis of rather recent concepts on the other. Many structured considerations appear as the text moves along, and that is why the whole book is opened with a short explanation of the concept of argument.

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13.64 €

Choose My Way!: Educational Activities of the Freegan Subculture in Public Space

Zvol si mou cestu!: Edukační aktivity subkultury freeganů ve veřejném prostoru

Author(s): Kateřina Lojdová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Freegan subculture; educational activities; public space; public pedagogy; unofficial educational agents;

The monography examines freegan subculture as an educator in public space. Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. They are active in public space and represent environmental activism through demonstrations, happenings, using online media etc. The research goal was to analyse educational activities by subcultures in public space. The research design is ethnography. Data collecting methods were in-depth interviews with 16 people defining themselves as freegans and participant observation. The researcher spent more than a year in freegan subculture, visiting their activities in public and private sphere and making field notes. Text reveals concept of public pedagogy, which reminds multifarious ways in which the public space can be viewed as a site of educational discourse and defines public pedagogy of freegan subculture. The final part expounds subcultures as unofficial educational agents, acting outsider educational institutions.

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20.66 €

Film Analysis

Rozbor filmu

Author(s): Radomir D. Kokeš / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: film analysis; stylistic; narrative; thematic arrangement; film studies; audio-visual culture;

The aim is to offer a comprehensive textbook focused on formal analysis of stylistic, narrative, and thematic arrangement of a film work. The publication should be useful for students of film studies and audio-visual culture, as well as for wide audiences (academics, film reviewers, and film fans). The book structure follows a bottom-up explanation model which starts with searching for a research problem and the thesis formulation and goes on to questions related to the text outline and the structure of argumentation. The final part of the book offers more complex film case analyses rooted in the perspective of the previous chapters.

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Living in the Digital Age: Self-presentation, Networking, Playing, and Participating in Politics

Living in the Digital Age: Self-presentation, Networking, Playing, and Participating in Politics

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: Digital age; Self-presentation; New Media usage; Pursuit of popularity; Online Communities; Online Betting; Online Games;

Some of the most pertinent questions those of us living in developed countries encounter – both as individuals and as members of societies – have to do with how we live in the digital age. The range of scientific, economic, legal, and ethical discussions on the issue may, at times, feel overwhelming. Initial scholarly and policy claims about the revolutionary impact of the internet – on the ways in which we conduct our everyday lives, relate to one another, develop personality traits, and exercise our democratic rights – that surfaced in the early 1990s have gradually become more nuanced as more scientific evidence became available. This book Living in the Digital Age: Self-presentation, Networking, Playing, and Participating in Politics seeks to contribute to some of the most up-to-date, complex explorations of the topic.

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33.00 €

Fairytale Stories in Czech Literature for Children and Youth, 1990-2010

Pohádkové příběhy v české literatuře pro děti a mládež 1990–2010

Author(s): Milena Šubrtová,Ivan Nemec,Jitka Zítková,Martin Reissner,David Kroča,Miroslav Chocholatý,Naděžda Sieglová,Jiří Poláček / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Fairy tales; Jan Vladislav; Theory of literature; Milada Motlova; Folk material; Anglo-Saxon and domestic tradition; Václav Čtvrtek; Emil Šaloun; Parody; Travesty; Imagination;

Předložená monografie se věnuje problematice českého pohádkového příběhu v rozpětí od roku 1990 do roku 2010. Instalace svobodného knižního trhu, proměny ediční politiky se vstupem nových nakladatelských domů na českou literární scénu, konfrontace se zahraničními vlivy a především odlišné čtenářské kompetence současných dětí ovlivnily pochopitelně i žánrovou mapu současné literatury pro děti a mládež. Od 90. let 20. století se začínají rozvolňovat tradičně vnímané hranice, jimiž se literatura určená dětem vydělovala jako subsystém navenek, ale i hranice, které ji vnitřně žánrově i hodnotově stratifikovaly a čtenářsky kategorizovaly.

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34.63 €

The Role of Local Projects in Czech Employment Policy: Evaluation Study of a Project Focused on Increasing Employment of the Disabled Persons and Those Over 50

Role lokálních projektů v české politice zaměstnanosti: Evaluační studie projektu zaměřeného na zvýšení zaměstnatelnosti zdravotně postižených osob a osob starších padesáti let

Author(s): Pavel Horák / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Czech economy; employment policy; local projects; increasing employment; human resources; disabled persons over 50;

The book deals with the topic of local employment projects financed by the European Social Fund in the Czech Republic and their potential to enhance employability of selected vulnerability groups of job seekers. Most chapters are devoted to the evaluation of an example local employment project. On this case study, the author shows how similar projects can be evaluated, what may be their strengths and weaknesses, and how much they can contribute to increasing employability of their participants.

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