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Subversive Stages Reflections on Czech Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9788024639536, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The motto "Narod sobe" – "From the Nation to Itself" – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater holds for the Czechs. It also...
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£20,00
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Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank
ISBN: PB: 9788024637303, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drapal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Her...
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£19,00
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Pied Piper
ISBN: PB: 9788024634401, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
125 pp., 19x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! For "The Pied Piper", Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for hi...
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£8,99
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Crossing between Tradition and Modernity Essays in Commemoriation of Milena Dolezalova-Velingerova (1932-2012)
ISBN: PB: 9788024635132, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
318 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity" presents thirteen essays written in honor of Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova (1932-2012), a member of the Prague School of Sinology and an importan...
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£19,00
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Theatre Theory Reader Prague School Writings
ISBN: PB: 9788024635781, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2017
646 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 46 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The "Theatre Theory Reader" provides the first comprehensive and critical anthology of texts reflecting on the development of the theater theory of the Prague School – or Prague Linguistic...
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£30,00
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God's Rainbow
ISBN: HB: 9788024632919, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
140 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 15 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to p...
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£16,50
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From Syntax to Text The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9788024628790, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
400 pp., 24x16.5 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. Libuše Duškova...
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£26,50
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