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The Political and Social Elite of Serbs in Croatia at the End of the Nineteenth Century.

Politička i društvena elita Srba u Hrvatskoj potkraj 19. stoljeća

Author(s): Nives Rumenjak / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Serbian club; People’s Party; Khuen’s People’s Party; Károly Khuen Héderváry; Croatian Military Border

This research deals with a historiographically common subject that, until now, did not have monographic coverage. Its subject are the members of the political, social and economic elite of Serbs assembled in the Serbian club within the Croatian Diet as the part of the ruling People’s Party at the time of viceroy (ban) Károly Khuen Héderváry (1883-1903). Insufficient research of this segment of the Serbian politics loyal to the government at the time it was becoming a significant factor in the system of Croatian agreement autonomy, primarily reflects the lack of both suitable primary and secondary sources, and the innovative methodological approaches that are caused by the scarceness of the basic resources on the subject. Comparative prosopography proved to be the optimal methodological tool in placing the research focus on a very narrow and biographically unknown elite group that was active in different spheres of Croatia proper (Banska Hrvatska) as well as in the wider regional frame of Transleithania (the state union between Croatia and Hungary) at the turn of the 20th century. Prosopography is an established method of political and social history that is used in the research of numerically identifiable (smaller) elite groups in a shorter time frame and it implies analysing a number of complementary serial sources by introducing standardized questions on the background and status of the members of the Serbian elite. The use of comparative prosopography has enabled detection of a deeper social and economical background of the political action and ideology of the Serbian club, as well as a broader circle of the Serbian elite in several social spheres Σ within the institutions of Hungarian- Croatian parliamentarism, in banks, savings banks and financial organizations in Croatia proper and within the institutions of Serbian church and school autonomy in Hungary and Croatia. Prosopography has not, until now, been used by other researchers for analysing the subjects from Croatian history, and therefore it was applied in creating the database on elite groups that lacks in Croatian historiography of the 19th and the 20th century, especially if it is taken into consideration that this was a period of systematic production of many suitable printed serial sources, especially public or state registers on administrative affairs and economy. The groundbreaking importance of this research, from the perspective of Serbian subject matter in historiography, is mostly reflected in the fact of (re)construction of the Serbian identity in quite a number of representatives in the Croatian Diet and especially those members in ruling structures of the financial organizations since most of the available Croatian and Serbian sources from that period either indirectly imply a possible Serbian nationality of the individuals in the researched groups and institutions or they are tacit on the subject. The book embarks upon analysing the subject that historiography so far has mostly dealt with in regards with the Serbian club within Khuen’s People’s Party.

A Glossary of Southern Silesian Surnames of the 19th Century

Słownik nazwisk mieszkańców południowego Śląska XIX wieku

Author(s): Izabela Łuc / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: surname; Cieszyn Silesia; 19th Century

The glossary comprises over 11.200 surnames of the inhabitants of the southern part of Silesia, which in the 19th century belonged to the Duchy of Teschen. The data have been excerpted from archival sources. The volume presents an annotated collection of anthroponyms, demonstrating the processes of formation and consolidation of the 19th century Cieszyn Silesia names in the city of Cieszyn and in the surrounding towns, villages, settlements and hamlets. The collected material includes both native and foreign names, which helps establish the proportion of the inhabitants of the region who were born in other parts of the country or who were of another nationality. This approach also demonstrates the layers of culture that had been accumulating throughout the centuries. Neither the organisation nor the structure of the glossary follows closely the existing anthroponomasticons. Its design was driven by the specific character of the names collected and subordinated to the research goals, which involved as thorough as possible an analysis of the sources.

Slovak drama in Poland. Translation in the dialogue of proximate cultures

Dramat słowacki w Polsce. Przekład w dialogu kultur bliskich

Author(s): Lucyna Spyrka / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: dialogue of cultures; translation; cultural proximity; Polish culture; Slovak culture; drama

The book is devoted to the Polish translations of Slovak dramatic works in the context of the dialogue between both cultures. In the first part of the work an attempt is made at formulating a definition and arranging concepts, beginning from the concept of the dialogue between cultures, translation, the competence of the recipients and the translator proceeding through a discussion of the determinants of cultural proximity and the factors which specify the contribution of translation in the intercultural dialogue, including its functions and value. There is an outline of the contacts between Polish and Slovak cultures, with reference to the contribution of translations of Slovak literature into Polish. // The second part of the book contain a discussion of the particular translations of Slovak dramatic works and their reception, which is preceded by an outline of the development of Slovak drama as well as the discussion of the theoretical concepts of translating dramatic works and their possible participation in the dialogue between cultures. An attempt was made at determining the contribution of these works in the Polish-Slovak dialogue of cultures in reference to each work that was discussed and to indicate the reasons of the particular state of affairs in the case of a given translation. Reference has also been made to the information about the authors of the particular translations. // We may distinguish three periods in the history of the presence of Slovak playwriting output in Polish culture: the pre-war years, the post-war years and the period after the Velvet Revolution. Each of these periods has a peculiar nature of its own, determined above all by the historical context in which the cultural contacts between both peoples developed. // In the inter-war period Slovak dramatic works were not staged in Polish theatres, and only one work was published in print — a one-act play by Jozef Gregor Tajovský entitled “Matka” [“Mother”]. // Another phase of the Polish-Slovak dialogue of cultures begins in the years that followed the Second World War. Both the Polish literature as well as the Slovak literature was subordinated to the standards determined by the third, Soviet culture. The intercultural contacts were ideologised and politicised. Therefore the notion of a dialogue of cultures hardly applies here. In this context we may mention the translations of the following dramatic works: “Experiment Damokles” [“The Damocles Experiment”] by Peter Karvaš and “Kráľovná noci v kamennom mori” [“The Queen of the Night in the Stone Desert”] by Ján Solovič. // The text of the translation may assume various positions in the new cultural context: it may be domesticated, being subject to acculturation or on the contrary — it may become a rejected or even alienated translation. The last chapter of the book is devoted to problems of this kind. Among the Polish translations of Slovak dramatic works there were none that would be domesticated in our culture. Slovak drama participates in the Polish-Slovak intercultural communication but it struggles to participate in the dialogue between both cultures.

The 1848-49 Freedom Fight and the Hungarian Jews

A negyvennyolcas magyar szabadságharc és a zsidók

Author(s): Béla Bernstein / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: Hungarian Jews; 1848-49; freedom fight

One of his main work, the report of the participation of the Jews in the Hungarian Freedom Fight against the Habsburg Empire 1848-1849, is still sets the standard in the research of Hungarian Jewish history. Béla Bernstein, Hungarian rabbi and author; was graduated as Ph.D. at Leipsic, 1890, and as rabbi at the Budapest Seminary in 1893; since 1894 has officiated as rabbi at Szombathely (Stein-am-Anger). He published "Die Schrifterklärung des Bachja ben Ascher," Berlin, 1891, and collaborated in a Hungarian translation of the Pentateuch, published by the Jewish Hungarian Literary Society, 1898. A monograph upon the Hungarian Revolution and the Jews was also published in Hungarian by the same association in 1898; "Die Toleranztaxe der Juden in Ungarn," Breslau, 1901.

Diary from East Prussia. Notes of a Physician from the Years 1945-1947

Dziennik z Prus Wschodnich. Zapiski lekarza z lat 1945-47

Author(s): Hans von Lehndorff / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: East Prussia; war; Soviet offensive; Konigsberg; physician; German; diary

The last days of war in East Prussia, the 1945 victory, the Soviet occupation, and the Polish beginnings in Masuria. Hans von Lehndorff, a physician by vocation, a sensitive observer, and a deeply devout Christian on his great odyssey in the havocked lands gives a unique testimony of salvaging humanity at the time of decline and disaster.

Lower Silesia 1936-1956. Rapid Development and Unsuccessful Reconstruction: The Impact of Knowledge on Industrial Production

Dolny Śląsk 1936-1956. Szybki rozwój i nieudana odbudowa. Wpływ wiedzy na produkcję przemysłową

Author(s): Kouli Yaman / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: industrial production; Lower Silesia; economic history; Regained Territories; resettlements; World War II

The author analyzes the development of industry in Lower Silesia in the years of 1936-1956 in the context of the question about the role of knowledge in the production process. He suggests a connection between the collapse of industrial production in the region after 1945 and the displacement of the German population. He shows the results of a loss of information networks, assuming that certain categories of knowledge cannot be "stored" in any other way than through human memory.

EUROPE FROM DAY TO DAY. VOL 14, The European War (March 1919 – January 1920)

L'EUROPE AU JOUR LE JOUR. VOL 14, La Guerre Européenne (Mars 1919 – Janvier 1920)

Author(s): Auguste Gauvain / Language(s): French

The 14 volumes of Auguste Gauvain represent an <strong>11 Years Political Diary</strong> of the very origins of Modern Europe as it evolved in early 20th century from a multitude of disintegrations (OTTOMAN EMPIRE…), competitions between colonialist powers (BERLIN-BAGDAD….), diplomatic pinpricks (AFFAIRE AGADIR….), side-theatres of war (BALKAN WARS 1912/13…) and, finally, the unique and global catastrophe of WorldWar I.<br>The idea of Modern Europe originated simultaneously from the efforts of thousands of individual politicians, diplomats, intellectuals to find applicable ways to prevent those European « Bloodlands » (<i>Timothy D. Snyder</i> ) during their own age as well as and for the future of Europe.<br>In 1908, when Austria-Hungary implemented the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the French journalist and Foreign-Policy expert Auguste Gauvain considered this decision of the Habsburg Empire as the beginning of a process which, more or less unavoidably, would result in a European War. Hence, he began writing a daily column on the “Event of the Day” in European politics for the French journal « Les Debats ». With few and short interruptions during WW I he did so on each day until the end of the Versailles Peace negotiations in 1919. In early 1920s he published the full collection of all these columns in 14 volumes with the title <strong>« L’Europe au Jour le Jour ».</strong><br>CEEOL has decided to re-publish all these 14 volumes and nearly 10.000 pages as a contemporary key document for understanding the very origins of Modern Europe, the historical progress it represents and the historical necessities and forces which triggered its development. Even its supra-national institution-building after WW II cannot be really understood without this historical background of a few decades before. <br><br><strong>FOR DETAILS REGARDING THIS VOLUME PLEASE DOWNLOAD PDFs FROM THE «Contents»-TAB HERE ↓↓ BELOW</strong>

Jewish (un)masculinities. On pre‑war writings of Adolf Rudnicki

Żydowskie (nie)męskości. O przedwojennej twórczości Adolfa Rudnickiego

Author(s): Gaweł Janik / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Adolf Rudnicki; inter-war literary output; Jews;masculinity;

The monograph is meant as a kind of a complete guide to pre‑war writings of Adolf Rudnicki. The author has taken into consideration all literary works written by Rudnicki that were published at that time, including both books and short stories published in the press, as well as fragments of a drama which has never been published in full. The present work begins with a chapter entitled “From the history of reception”, in which the author reconstructs pre‑war literary criticism of the works written by Rudnicki that were published at that time. On the basis of almost forty reviews, a broad picture has been created that shows how the writing of Rudnicki was interpreted and evaluated in the period under consideration. The aim of the author has been to confront the opinions of the researchers who claim that Rudnicki became critics’ favourite from the very moment of his literary debut, with source texts, and thus with original critical reviews published in pre‑war press. The analysis of the reception has allowed to throw doubt on the frequently repeated thesis whereby Rudnicki enjoyed a remarkable favour of reviewers. Chapter two discusses the idea of “Jewishness” of the pre‑war works of the writer. It demonstrates a long way that the author came, starting with his early texts, in which the Jewish themes are not taken up at all, or they are not explicit on the surface of the texts, up to a symbolic return to the reality of shtetl in the novel Lato [Summer]. Also, the aim of the author has been to look upon transformations in the writer’s worldview. Initially, his attitude was clearly assimilative. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, in turn, he took the side of the critics of assimilation. It has also become necessary to reconstruct the writer’s biography with a special emphasis on the orthodox family in which he was raised. Drawing on the category offered for reflection upon the Polish‑Jewish relations in 1980s by Artur Sandauer, the author of the present study has attempted to present Rudnicki as a writer‑allosemite. The third chapter is the author’s attempt to read Rudnicki’s pre‑war prose from the perspective of research on masculinity. The specificity of Rudnicki’s works, i.e. the world of men presented in them, from which women were almost completely excluded, has not been noticed for many years, and consequently has not been properly described. What is more, masculinity in Rudnicki’s texts often turns out to be exceptionally non‑masculine, effeminate, as well as homosexual. Thus, the present work becomes an attempt to read, in German Ritz’s words, the “secret signs” present in the writer’s inter‑war literary output, which makes it possible to read it as also homosexual, and thus to include Rudnicki among such writers such as Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz or Witold Gombrowicz.

Designers. The professional role of the designer in sociological review

DESIGNERZY. Rola zawodowa projektanta w oglądzie socjologicznym

Author(s): Paulina Rojek-Adamek / Language(s): Polish

O ile nie sposób podać uniwersalnej definicji designu, o tyle codzienna praktyka osób zajmujących się projektowaniem poddaje się różnym opisom tożsamościowym. Trudno jednak wskazać obiektywne kryteria, które pozwoliłyby na przykład na dystynkcję określeń „designer” i „projektant” czy na opisanie warunków niezbędnych, by ten zawód wykonywać (co czyni designera/projektanta – jaki typ przygotowania, doświadczenia, wykształcenia?). Kłopotliwe jest też pytanie o cel i zakres czynności zawodowych (czy to projektowanie form przemysłowych, czy także projektowanie usług? Czy również design doświadczeń?). Zagadnienia te pociągają za sobą kolejne – dotyczące postrzegania projektantów w ramach szerszej struktury społecznej, a więc odnoszące się do kwestii uznania i prestiżu. Jeśli niemal wszystko można nazwać dziś designem i niemal każdego designerem, to oba te określenia właściwie nic nie znaczą. Świetnie więc, że Paulina Rojek-Adamek zajęła się zbieraniem argumentów, które przemawiają za szerokim (bądź przeciwnie – za bardziej restrykcyjnym) rozumieniem designu. (…) Dobrze, że jej rozważania na temat designu i tego, jaka jest (jaka powinna być) dziś rola projektanta nie są zawieszone w próżni. Z jednej strony nawiązują one do coraz bogatszej literatury autorów identyfikujących się z socjologią designu, z drugiej – wypływają z rezultatów zrealizowanego przez Autorkę projektu badawczego.prof. dr hab. Rafał DrozdowskiKsiążka ta jest na pewno pracą erudycyjną, w której uwzględnione zostały zarówno podejścia klasycznej socjologii, jak i współczesnych autorów. (…) Polskiemu czytelnikowi jak dotąd nie zaoferowano wielu prac podejmujących tę problematykę, tymczasem zarówno estetyka, jak i – w węższym ujęciu – praca projektowa są dzisiaj uznawane za kwestię centralną dla rozważań związanych z nową ekonomią, studiami miejskimi, „zwrotem ku rzeczom” czy sztuką publiczną. dr hab. Małgorzata JacynoPaulina Rojek-Adamek, doktor socjologii. W swojej pracy naukowo-badawczej i licznych publikacjach zajmuje się tematyką designu, szczególnie aspektem społecznie odpowiedzialnego projektowania i rolą zawodową projektantów. Publikowała m.in. w czasopismach Polish Sociological Review, Kultura Popularna, Humanizacja Pracy. Współredaktorka tomu Drafts from Sociology of Design. Introduction to Discussion (2016). Adiunkt w Instytucie Filozofii i Socjologii Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie, od kilkunastu lat współpracuje również z Akademią Sztuk Pięknych w Katowicach.

Yugoslavia of Today

La Yougoslavie d’aujourd’hui

Author(s): Vukašin Životić / Language(s): French

Keywords: Yugoslavia 1930s;

Published in 1935 by the press-department of the Yugoslav Ministry for Foreign Affaires // Author (Head of the department) writes as introduction: During the three years of my presence at the head of the press section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I had the opportunity to find myself in contact with a large number of eminent representatives from other countries, coming to ask for various information on Yugoslavia and its activity in all fields. These frequent contacts have thus made me aware of what kind of questions foreign circles are particularly interested in Yugoslavia, its institutions, its political and economic organization. The experience gained during my career has encouraged me to write a sufficiently documented work that can satisfy the desires of benevolent strangers, anxious to obtain the objective and accurate information they need and to have, as an introduction to Yugoslav life, a manual which is not too incomplete. In taking on this initiative, I have carefully designed the scope and scope of this book, and, after several months of work, " La Yougoslavie d’aujourd’hui " has just been published. I leave it to others to judge the success of my business. For my part, I can only say that I have made every effort to ensure that this work achieves the goal I set for myself. I would like here to express my thanks to all the friends and collaborators who, either through their advice or through their work, have assisted me in writing this volume.

FROM THE WORLD OF THE SOUTH LAVES. Political, historical, socialist aspects, along with two trips to South Slavia and German adaptations of South Slavic poetry

AUS DER WELT DER SÜDSLAWEN. Politisches, Historisches, Sozialistisches, nebst zwei Südslawienfahrten und Nachdichtungen südslawischer Lyrik

Author(s): Carl Max Ludwig Hermann Wendel / Language(s): German

Keywords: South-Slavs; Jugoslavia;

published by: J. H.W.DIETZ NACHFOLGER, BERLIN //When Friedrich FG Kleinwächter says in his far too little read, very informative book “The Downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” that Europe knew more about Japan and India than about the South Slavic countries of the Habsburg Empire, the South-Slavic world still today is not in the bright midday light of being known. // In Germany, too, there is often an almost encyclopedic ignorance about the southern Slavs, although they come across our tribal territory on a broad front and one day they will also be our border neighbors in the state; Gone are the days when a Jakob Grimm, an Alexander v. Humboldt, a Leopold v. Ranke were eager to gain an understanding of South Slavic matters. // This regrettable fact - more regrettable for us than for the southern Slavs - justifies the summary and publication of treatises which, whether they have been in "Society" or "Wage", Viennese, workers' Newspaper ”,“ Frankfurter Zeitung ”or“ Prager Presse ”have appeared, are based on knowledge of the subject, strive to penetrate the subject matter and are carried by the will to objectivity. (the author)

People of Two Cultures: Selected Cases of the Cultural Transgression of Poles in the Ottoman Empire (17th–19th Centuries)

Ludzie dwóch kultur. Wybrane przypadki transgresji kulturowej Polaków w Imperium Osmańskim w XVII, XVIII i XIX wieku

Author(s): Agnieszka Aysen Kaim / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: conversion; renegade; cultural broker; go-between; identity; transgression; transcultural; coexistence

This book is devoted to multiculturality and cultural transgression. The study begins with the definitions and descriptions of the phenomena and terminology crucial to the source materials, and presents biculturality from the micro-historical perspective of the case studies of three well-known Polish figures: Wojciech Bobowski (Ali Ufkî Bey, 17th c.), Salomea Regina Pilsztynowa (18th c.) and Konstanty Borzęcki (Mustafa Celâleddin Paşa, 19th/20th c.). Their biographies exemplify the complicated identities at the border of two cultures: Polish and Turkish, Christian and Muslim. The figures in focus are representatives of the “go-between” category which includes captives, émigré converts and Turkophile travellers who prospered in the Ottoman Empire. These “cultural brokers” made their presence felt in the history of Turkish–Polish relations and have passed into the history of culture. They are examined from the perspective of contemporary cultural studies, set against the latest anthropological theories (cultural syncretism, identity in multicultural societies), with special emphasis placed on cultural transgression as a set of shifting interactions. The analysis of the transgressive processes experienced by the individuals being studied takes into account their religious conversion, its circumstances, nature and consequences.

КОНТИНЕНТ / CONTINENT East-West-Forum – Issue 1976 / 04

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1976 / 04

Author(s): Abdurachman G. Avtorchanov,Joseph Brodsky,Milovan Đilas,Anatolij Gladilin,Igor Golomstock,Leszek Kołakowski,Vladimir Rafailovič Maramzin,Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov,Andrej Sinjavskij / Language(s): German

Keywords: Fine arts under totalitarianism;

Andrej Sacharow — The World in Fifty Years // Milovan Djilas — The Sister // Andrej Sinjawski — People and Animals // Wladimir Maramsin — From the short story »I, with a slap in my hand« // Jossif Brodskij — Dedicated to Yalta // Anatolij Gladilin — A tiger crosses the street // Wladimir Maximow — The ballad of Sawwa. [Narration]. Part Two // Igor Golomschtock — The Language of Fine Arts in Totalitarianism // Leszek Kołakowski — On Sakharov's last book // Abdurachman Avtorchanow — Behind the scenes of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact // Editor's heading — One more time Sakharov

КОНТИНЕНТ / CONTINENT East-West-Forum – Issue 1976 / 05

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1976 / 05

Author(s): Jossif Bogoras,Georgi Boshinov,Joseph Brodsky,Vasilj Grossman,Eugène Ionesco,Boris Yampolsky,Vladimir Rafailovič Maramzin,Jurij K. Oleša,Andrej Sinjavskij,Josef Smrkovský,Jewgenij Ternowskij / Language(s): German

Wassilij Grossman — From the second part of the novel "For the just cause" // Georgi Boshinov — Green forests, cold water // Jossif Bogoras — The cell spike (novel) Part one // Wladimir Maramsin — The horse with two heads // Boris Jampolskij — Long live the world without me — to Jurij Oljescha // Jurij Oljescha — Liompa — Love — From "Not a day without a line" // Andrej Sinjawski — Promenades with Pushkin. Excerpts // Jossif Brodskij Lullaby from the Cod Cape. Poem // Josef Smrkovský — The unfinished conversation // Yevgeny Ternowskij — The dark face of Gogol // From the editors — Conversation with Eugene Ionesco

КОНТИНЕНТ / CONTINENT East-West-Forum – Issue 1977 / 07

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1977 / 07

Author(s): Joseph Brodsky,Antonin Brousek,Mikhail Bulgakov,Emil Morgiewicz,Viktor Nekrasov,Vladimir Voinovich / Language(s): German

Viktor Nekrasov – Views and a Little More // Wladimir Woinowitsch – Iwankiada // Michail Bulgakow – Letter to the Soviet government. The Red Island // Antonin Brousek – Poems // Jossif Brodskij – Poems: December in Florence – Torso // Anonymous – Program of the Polish Independence Movement // Emil Morgiewicz – On the Situation in Polish Prisons

КОНТИНЕНТ / CONTINENT East-West-Forum – Issue 1983 / 25

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1983 / 25

Author(s): Wassilij Aksjonow,Elena Andronowa,Avîgdôr Dāgān,Michail Ja. Geller,Anatolij Korjagin,Kurt Marko,Veronika Polonskaja,Mark Popowskij,Sergej Soldatov,Dora Sturman,Vladimir Nikolaevič Vojnovič / Language(s): German

Soviet prisoners to the Pope // MICHAIL HELLER: Changing of the Guard // DORA STURMAN: Disdained Love. Notes on the history of Russian Liberalism // “Moscow's goals have not changed.” - Interview with Eugen Loebl // AVIGDOR DAGAN: Conversations with Jan Masaryk // KURT MARKO: A Socratic Mirror. Isaiah Berlin's “Russian Thinkers” // VLADIMIR WOINOWITSCH: On the inconstancy of fashion. Consideration of the ideological changes in the Soviet Union // SERGEI SOLDATOW: The Estonian knot. Reflections on Estonia's national fate // WASSILIJ AKSJONOW: Swiashsk // ELENA ANDRONOWA poems // MARK POPOWSKIJ (ed.): "A very powerful organization ...". Science and the secret police in the Soviet Union // VERONIKA POLONSKAJA: Memories of Mayakovsky // ANATOLIJ KORJAGIN: “Where is the right to life here?” // Declaration of solidarity from the Polish underground

Wh-Questions: A Case Study in Czech

Wh-Questions: A Case Study in Czech

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

Keywords: linguistics; inquiry questions; direct questions; Czech national corpus

In the empirical, descriptive sections of this monograph the author develops standard argumentation in favour of the structurally-based transformational nature of Wh-questions in English and Czech. She demonstrates how Wh-questions in Slavic languages first impacted the theoretical discussion and how their description challenged some earlier assumptions based on specifically English data. The study provides a historical survey of the analyses which reflect the development of the field. Individual chapters are devoted to comparing extraction domains, locality conditions, and constraints defined in terms of the structures proposed. The Wh-characteristics are compared with Focus/ Contrastive Topic re-orderings, which leads to an improved structural analysis, using the concept of a Split CP. In spite of the demonstrable progress of the research, many so far unexplained aspects of the Wh-phenomena will without doubt continue to provide an interesting source for future research on the structure of human language.

IN TIME - Cognitive and affective dimensions of young adults in relation to pregnancy and parenthood

IN TIME – Kognitivní a afektivní dimenze mladých dospělých ve vztahu k těhotenství a rodičovství

Author(s): Michaela Hřivnová,Martina Cichá,Tereza Sofková,Hana Heiderová,Jitka Slaná Reissmannová,Vladislava Marciánová,Jan Vodička,Dana Dlouhá / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: pregnancy; parenthood; sexual reproduction; assisted reproduction;

The monograph focuses on a highly relevant but hitherto neglected social and educational issue of early pregnancy/parenting and possible bio-psycho-social aspects of edalyed/late pregnancy/parenting. The theoretica background of the publication represents a platform of core issues (demographic indicators, education of sexual and reproductive health, pregnancy planning/parenting, social, cultural and religious aspects of assisted reproduction, etc.) for analysis and evaluation in the context of the "Research on the cognitive and affectie dimension of young adults in the area of early pregnancy/parenting" which involved a total of 800 university students.

On the output of Andrzej Zimniak

O twórczości Andrzeja Zimniaka

Author(s): Adam Mazurkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish literature after 1945; science fiction; popularization of knowledge

The monographic outline is devoted to the work of Andrzej Zimniak. He is a writer who has been active creatively since 1980. Not only the most well-known aspect of his writing, i.e. science fiction, is included; the artist's popular science essays were also recalled, which is combined with fiction and not very well-known poetry (Zimniak is the author of one volume, entitled “Fraszki rubaszne” [Epigrams coarse], 2012). The overriding goal of the monograph was to show the evolution of selected motifs, the most characteristic of Zimniak's prose, which at the same time are reflected in the popular science reflection of this writer (these include m.in the possibility of contact with extraterrestrial civilization, potential ways of human self-evolution to the level of “homo superior”, ecological themes and reflection on the challenges posed by expansive – and at the same time less and less controllable – technological progress. The issues listed here have been discussed in the broad context of civilizational, social and political changes, which significantly affect Zimniak as a writer and popularizer of science, active from 1980 to the present day. This context is accompanied by a reconstruction of the evolution of the writer's philosophical and anthropological views, which are a reflection of the times in which he created.The monograph was accompanied by a bibliography constructed in such a way that it not only attested to the works referred to in the considerations. First of all, it is to be a starting point for the reader's own reading searches interested in deepening knowledge on the topics discussed in the study.

Report on the Grand Tour of Johann Christian and Johann Seyfried von Eggenberg through Central, Western and Southern Europe 1660-1663

Bericht über die Reise Johann Christians und Johann Seyfrieds von Eggenberg durch die Länder Mittel-, West- und Südeuropas in den Jahren 1660–1663

Author(s): Václav Bok,Anna Kubíková / Language(s): German

Keywords: aristocracy; Grand Tour; education; tourism; Eggenberg; Louvain; Baroque; seventeenth century

The edition presents report on the Grand Tour of Johann Christoph and Johann Seyfried Princes of Eggenberg. The journey occurred between 1660 and 1663, the aim was to attend the University of Louvain (Löwen) and then to travel through France and Italy. The report is written in German, it includes a long description of Paris and Italian cities. The introductory essay is written in German, it tells the history of the Eggenberg family and their possessions in Southern Bohemia. It also explains the methods used to finance the Grand Tour. All the explanatory footnotes are also in German. There are also explanatory comments annexed to the report, in which the editors discuss the German language style, the identity of the author, the purpose of the report and the art monuments commented in the report. The e-book does not include pictures.