Vol. 7 (2014)

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Published: 2014-12-12

Articles

The Bereaved Post-9/11 Orphan Boy: Representing (and Relativizing) Crisis and Healing, Tradition and Invention

Maria Holmgren Troy

11-19
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The Sorrowing Child in the “City Too Busy To Hate”: the Atlanta Child Murders in Contemporary American Literature

Yuri Stulov

20-29
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The Sorrowing Boy with Green Hair: A Cinematic Allegory against War and Injustice

James I. Deutsch

30-37
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“We Were But Property – Not a Mother, and the Children God Had Given Her”: The Figure of a Child in Abolitionist Literature

Šárka Bubíková

38-47
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Muhammad Was a Punk Rocker: The Depiction of Islam in The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight

Jarosław Mihułka

48-61
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Cultural War – Concept, Myth and Reality: A Clash of Ideas in “Post-Secular” American Society at the Turn of the Millennium

David Václavík

62-68
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A pre-9/11 novel: Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne

Ewa Kowal

69-79
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Queer Circles: Spiritualism and Role-Playing in Sarah Waters’s Affinity

Michaela Weiss

80-89
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Dying Protagonists in Two Gay Southern Novels: Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits and Jim Grimsley’s Dream Boy

Roman Trušník

90-97
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The Urge to Tell vs. the Need to Conceal: Confession as Narrative Desire in Poe’s “The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Imp of the Perverse”

Lorelei Caraman

98-107
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Antebellum American Whiggery, Catholicism, and the Ideological Roots of Nativism

Joseph W. Pearson

108-118
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A Memorial Address to a Passing Civilisation: Roger Scruton’s Elegy for England

Tomáš Jajtner

119-132
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“How Should One Live?” The “Lives” of Henry James and Martha C. Nussbaum’s Conception of Moral Philosophy

Robert Kusek

133-144
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Feet on the Ground: W.H. Auden’s Late Landscapes

Ladislav Vít

145-156
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Shakespeare’s Poetry in the context of mimesis and imitatio in Elizabethan Poetics

Martina Kastnerová

157-170
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Student Contributions

LeRoi Jones to Amiri Baraka: A Philosophical Journey of a Black Author

Jiří Stárek

173-184
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Book Reviews

The Melting Pot, the Orchestra and American Diversity

Šárka Bubíková

187-189
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Czech Voices in Canada

Ladislav Vít

190-191
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