Virginia Woolf and Karel Čapek produced direct responses to the British Empire Exhibition in the forms of – in Woolf’s case – a scathing essay entitled ‘Thunder at Wembley’ and – in Čapek’s case – a (P)OstModernist travelogue ...

The history of physical and socio-political violence in Central Europe, a region marred by Nazi occupation and Communist oppression, has always been a cocktail of confusion. Despite Milan Kundera’s controversial attempts ...

From its birth in Sri Thomas more’s Utopia (1516) to the present day, thinkers tend to regard utopia as either eutopia (“good place”), a blueprint of an ideal state which exists or can be made to exist, a critique of ...

Bozena Slacikova “Timrava” (1867-1951) and her British contemporary Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) wrote scathingly about America without having visited the place. Timrava’s 1907 short “That Alluring Land” (“Ta zem vabna”) and ...

Zazwyczaj przyjmuje się, że czas postrzegany może być tylko w kategoriach przestrzennych i że spacjalizacja czasu, uzależniając go ściśle od tego, co materialne, ogranicza moc jego abstrakcyjności lub wirtualności. Literatura ...