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	Czech literature - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Czech literature is literature of the Czech Republic, most often meaning literature written by Czechs, in the Czech language.
		The founding of the University of Prague, in 1348, by Emperor Charles IV was a mighty factor in the improvement of Bohemian literature in all branches.
		During this the Czech language passed from its old form to the medieval stage, and this epoch may be called the golden age of Bohemian literature.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Czech_literature (2408 words)

	Czech literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, from early 19th century, the Czechs have defined their nationality by their Czech language, and so, normally, only modern literature written in Czech is regarded as part of this category.
		Czech literature and culture played a major role on at least two occasions when Czech society lived under oppression and no political activity was possible.
		Immediately after the fall of communism, the Czech public was very much interested in the "forbidden fruit" of "dissident" and "emigré" literature, but the interest quickly subsided, when the book market was flooded by previously banned literature, which now, after the fall of communism, seem to relate to a "bygone" era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czech_literature (1211 words)

	Encyclopedia: Czech literature
		Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)).
		Czech (ÄŒeÅ¡tina) is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian (extinct), and Lusatian Sorbian.
		Ottos encyclopedia (Czech: Ottova encyklopedie or Ottův slovník naučný), published at the turn of the 20th century, is the largest encyclopedia written in the Czech language.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Czech-literature (2748 words)

	The Czech Language on WWW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The earliest origins of literature in Czech are connected with Old Church Slavonic, which was devised by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to counter Frankish (German) influence.
		Czech literature in the 16th century was predominantly didactic and scholarly, reflecting the humanism of the European Renaissance.
		Interest in early Czech literature was further stimulated by several brilliant hoax manuscripts, purported to be from the early Middle Ages but actually written by Václav Hanka, which have held their own as examples of Romantic poetry.
	www.czech-language.cz /fiction/fiction.html (1664 words)

	Czech Literature And The Reading Public
		Both Czech emigrés in the West and the dissident community in Czechoslovakia were children of the 1960s liberalisation process and its culmination, the 1968 Prague Spring.
		In spite of the intense efforts of Czech emigrés to smuggle independent literature, published in the West, into Czechoslovakia under communism, the emigré editions circulated in a relatively small number of copies within the country and were thus accessible only to a limited reading audience, primarily in Prague.
		Sylvie Richterová, poet, prose writer, literary critic and lecturer in Czech literature at Rome University warns that the current small levels of interest in Czech independent literature are the result of what she sees as xenophobic attitudes of Czechs towards their diaspora.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/staff/Czech_literature.html (3864 words)

	Czech literature on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		CZECH LITERATURE [Czech literature] literary works that constitute part of the Czech culture and, except for some early compositions written in liturgical languages, is in the Czech language.
		The crowning glory of the age was the Kralice Bible, translated by the Czech Brethren and published from 1579 to 1593.
		In the period from 1918 to 1938 Czech literature was the most cosmopolitan of the Slavonic literatures; at the same time native themes were cultivated.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Czechlit.asp (930 words)

	Czech literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Until c.1400, Czech literature consisted mainly of Latin chronicles (Cosmas of Prague, 1125) and of Czech hymns, tales of chivalry, and romances in verse.
		The language reforms of John Huss helped to make Czech an effective literary language for the writers of the Renaissance, as in the works of the humanists, in the religious and secular writings of the Moravian bishop Jan Blahoslav (1503–71), and in the histories of Veleslavin (1545–99).
		ech, Jan Neruda, and Joseph V. Sládek and the novels of Alois Jirásek achieved fame, literature was oriented toward the intellectual and the bourgeois.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cz/Czechlit.html (664 words)

	Czech language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Czech is a Western Slavonic language spoken by about 12 million people in the Czech Republic.
		The region where Czech is spoken is traditionally called Bohemia and was named after the Boii tribe who, according to Roman sources, have inhabited the area since at least the 1st century AD.
		After many years of Austrian rule, during which German was the main language of literature and government, there was a revival of Czech literature at the end of the 18th century.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/czech.htm (466 words)

	Czech literature -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The decline of literary Czech in the early 18th century, however, generated an increase of...
		Czech literature can claim a remote ancestry in the vernacular writing connected with the mission sent to Moravia in AD 863 by the Byzantine emperor Michael III.
		Traditionally it is held to have begun in 842 with the Oath of Strasbourg, a political pact between Louis the German and Charles the Bald, the text of which survives in Old French.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028459?&query=czech (839 words)

	Literature in Czech - Literature by Region Quiz
		In 1800 Czech was a language mostly spoken by peasants and it had no modern literary canon.
		It was revived in the 19th century and in the new millenium the Czech literary heritage is rich and vast.
		Nonetheless, she became one of the leading figures in Czech intellectual and nationalist circles in the 1840s and 50s.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?id=76786 (290 words)

	Russian and East European Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Czech studies is taught in IU's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures with support from the Russian and East European Institute (REEI), a U.S. Department of Education funded Title VI national resource center.
		Professor Volková teaches all levels of Czech language and several literature, linguistics, and culture courses, including History of Czech Literature and Culture, Contemporary Czech Literature and Culture, The Prague School of Linguistics and Poetics, Central European Literature between the Wars and Literary Texts in Totalitarian and Post-Communist Society.
		Czech Films can be checked out from the Russian and East European Institute for loan without charge to instructors and students for use in the classroom and curricular development.
	www.indiana.edu /~reeiweb/index/czechstudies.html (1593 words)

	Naropa University - International Education - Prague - WRI 510 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Starting with the roots (and rhizomes) of trends and traditions in literature, music, theatre, film and art as well as pub and café subcultures, etc. we will observe their transformations in time and place.
		Discussions exploring new directions in Czech literature, based on works of the hottest and hippest writers, film and rock music and visits to topic-related literary and music events are an essential part of the course.
		We will explore the transformation of the cult literature into market literature and investigate new forms, trends and strategies, including lyrics, magazines, clubs, festivals and publishing houses, focusing on alternative culture as a vital factor in the “war of the imagination”.
	www.naropa.edu /studyabroad/prague/wri510.html (1062 words)

	Transcript (English)
		Czech literature has a certain number of fans and a hallmark of quality.
		The position of the Czech literature in Poland is not particulary bad, especially when compared to the literature of other smaller nations.
		The position of Czech literature in the U.S. is primarily a function of the size of the population and its consequences for the economics of the publishing industry.
	www.transcript-review.org /section.cfm?id=97&lan=en (1373 words)

	Czech Literature Congress in Prague - 07-07-2000 - Radio Prague
		Czech literature at the end of the millennium.
		The Czech Republic may be small but it has an incredibly rich literary tradition, reflected in the sheer number of people who have come for the congress.
		It is only the second time that experts on Czech literature have been able to come together here in the Czech capital.
	www.radio.cz /en/issue/11331 (449 words)

	Czech Literature since the 1980s
		Two final chapters of this important study in the Czech original are available on the net at this address.
		The young people of the 1970s and 1980s felt a close affinity to the Czech poets of the Second World War, in particular to the proto-existentialist Jiri Orten, a young Jew, living in Prague, who was killed in an accident, by a German ambulance at the age of 22 in 1941.
		Czech postmodernists are Vaclav Jamek, Michal Ajvaz, Sylvia Richterova, Vladimir Macura, Jiri Kratochvil and Daniela Hodrova.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/staff/Holy.html (4862 words)

	Czech and Slovak Writing in Translation
		The Native Literature of Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century, tr.
		Czech Literature Since 1956: A Symposium, William E. Harkins, Paul I. Trensky, ed, Bohemica, Columbia Slavic Studies, 1980.
		Novák Arne, Czech Literature [1946], Peter Kussi, trans, William E. Harkins, ed with a supplement, Michigan Slavic Publications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976 [the original of this is: Dějiny českého písemnictví, 1946].
	users.ox.ac.uk /~tayl0010/transl.html (2062 words)

	Czech Literature Since 1918
		Masaryk's own writings on the course of Czech history, his war memoirs, and expositions of his political and philosophical ideas won him a devoted following, though there is doubtful matter in his seductive interconnecting of Hussitism and Czech plebeian or non-aristocratic traditions with modern ideas of democratic government into a Czech "meaning of history".
		This Czech avant-garde writing moved from a kind of primitivist naivism, and a certain blend of Christian imagery and Marxist proletarianism - as practised briefly by the young poet Jiří Wolker (1900-24), who died of tuberculosis - into a playfully associative, popular-culture-influenced approach called in their manifestos "Poetism".
		In Czech poetry since 1945, apart from the older Holan and Seifert, English-language readers have particularly taken to the wry, analytical and drily playful lyrical commentaries of the scientist-writer Miroslav Holub (1923-98), with their own brand of satirically questioning and not totally un-Absurdist mini-narratives.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~tayl0010/lit_from_1918.htm (2855 words)

	Czech Literature Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He wrote all his books in German, and although he spoke fluent Czech, he is not typically considered to be a Czech writer.
		Czech poetry is much less translated and obviously much more difficult to translate than fiction.
		Nezval is arguably the greatest Czech poet but his image has been tarnished by his association with with the communist party.
	www.bohemica.com /bookstore/literaturebooks.htm (694 words)

	Programs of Study: Czech Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At least 12 points must be in Czech literature.
		Note that Czech G8001-G8002 -- Directed research in Czech literature may be repeated, since the content varies from year to year depending on students’ interests.
		The remaining 3 points may be taken in appropriate fields of history, linguistics, comparative literature, or another Slavic literature.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/slavic/programs/czech.htm (225 words)

	Modern Czech Literature
		The following is a list of Czech authors who facilitate a cross-cultural approach and who simultaneously represent the three main streams of modern Czech literature - (1) published officially in the former Czechoslovakia (Capek, Seifert); (2) written in exile (Kundera, Lustig, Skvorecky); and (3) samizdat writers (Havel, Klima).
		With the additional insight and diverse interpretations that various visual media offer, students are introduced to modern Czech literature within its historical and socio-cultural context.
		A Czech reading of his works is presented; it is based on what his work meant for Czech readers and critics at various times.
	www.chp.cz /cu_mcl.htm (985 words)

	CER \| Film: Kytice - a commercial for Czech literature
		Director F A Brabec, is mostly known as a extremely adept cameraman, who has a highly developed sense for the beauty of a picture, for the unison of colors and the impression of light.
		A vodník in Czech folklore is a mysterious character who lives underwater as a creature lost between dark evil and the positive human feelings of love and sorrow.
		The absurd story of Král Ubu did not reach the Czech audience and the final result took the form of an interesting "artistic experiment." As if to remedy this, Kytice is adapted from a poetic text which is far more well-known to Czech audiences.
	www.ce-review.org /01/4/kinoeye4_kosulicova.html (1274 words)

	Institute of Czech Literature, ASCR
		It was expanded to include the Institute for the Study of the Czech Theatre (1956-1993) and the branch in Brno (1961).
		The scientific work of the Institute is centred on the theory and history of Czech literature from ancient times to the present.
		Emphasis is placed on the lexicography of literary sciences and dictionary work, literary historical study of Czech literature and literary theoretical analysis, based principally on material from the 20th century.
	www.cas.cz /en/UCL.html (149 words)

	REENIC: Czech Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Czech Program at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at The University of Texas at Austin
		Texas Chair in Czech Studies (established at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Texas at Austin by the Czech communities of Texas; supports an undergraduate degree program in Czech language, literature, and culture, as well as study and research opportunities in the Czech Republic.
		Czech and Slovak Literature in Translation (a bibliography compiled by James Naughton, Oxford University)
	reenic.utexas.edu /reenic/countries/czech.html (1347 words)

	ACM Central European Studies Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although many Americans are familiar with the novels of Czech expatriate Milan Kundera, students will read the translated works of other novelists and poets who have explored the modern Czech experience, including Karel Capek, Ladislav Fuks, Ludvik Vaculik and others.
		Under the cover of their fantastic form, the most important works of Czechoslovak literature in the 1960s addressed the essential failure of socialist society.
		Their authors drew on the powerful heritage of Kafka and Czech surrealism and on the drama of the Absurd.
	www.acm.edu /czech/literature.html (279 words)

	UofC Slavic Department: Malynne Sternstein
		Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spring 1996.
		Czech, Russian and Central European Studies; The European Avant-Garde; Semiotic Theory; Performance Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Aesthetic Theory (Kitsch); Narratology; History of Ideas
		In Daylight in Nightclub Inferno: Czech Literature from the Post-Kundera Generation.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/slavic/sternstein.html (602 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Czech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Czech and Slovak Literature Resources - List of links related to Czech literature from its beginnings to present.
		Czech Literature in Translations - List of translations of famous Czech authors.
		Czech Literature and the Reading Public - Lecture by Jan Culik from Igor Hajek memorial conference.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Czech (133 words)

	Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alfred Thomas considers the development of Czech literature and society from the coronation of Count John of Luxembourg as king of Bohemia in 1310 to the year 1420, when the papacy declared a Catholic crusade against the Hussite reformers.
		Anne's Bohemia offers a social context for the most important works of literature written in the Czech language, from the earliest spiritual songs and prayers to the principal Hussite and anti-Hussite tracts of the fifteenth century.
		The picture that emerges from Thomas's close readings of these texts is one of a society undergoing momentous political and religious upheavals in which kings, queens, clergy, and heretics all played crucial roles.
	iarelative.com /czech/anne.htm (339 words)

	AllRefer.com - Czech literature (Russian And Eastern European Literature) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Czech literature (Russian And Eastern European Literature) - Encyclopedia
		Czech literature, literary works that constitute part of the Czech culture and, except for some early compositions written in liturgical languages, is in the Czech language.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Czech literature
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Czechlit.html (153 words)

	Czech literature: Early Literature
		In 1394, Smil Flaška of Pardubice initiated modern realistic Czech literature with an allegorical admonition in verse,
		Writing as Translation: African Literature and the Challenges of Translation.
		The 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: jurors and candidates.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0857668.html (344 words)

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