Miloslav Rechcigl 
Essays on the arts and sciences [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter – Table of Contents – A. Literature – Czech Literature: East or West? – Czech Scholarship and Writings in Sweden in the XVIIth Century – Jan Erazim Vocel (1802-1871): A Pioneer of Czech-Danish Friendship – Neruda and Nekrasov: A Confrontation – Vojtech Rakous, a Forgotten Czech Storyteller – Masaryk on Dostoevsky – Czech Literature and the First World War – On the Integrity of the Good Soldier Schweik – Wolker and Nezval – The Art of Olbracht’s Novel, Nikola Suhaj the Bandit – Karel Capek’s Contribution to Czech National Literature – The American Dream become Nightmare: Franz Kafka and Others – The Prague Group of Ukrainian Nationalist Writers and their Ideological Origins – B. LINGUISTICS – The Bohemian School of Church Slavonic – Dobrovsky and the South Slavic Literary Languages – An Outline of a Model of Stylistic Analysis – Positional Variants of Liquids in Czech: A Spectographic Analysis – Surrealist Poetics and Computer-Produced Poetry – C. HISTORY – The Byzantine Mission to Moravia – The Historical Background of the Church Conflict in Great Moravia – Great Moravian Architecture of the Ninth Century – The Recent Reinvestigation of Cyrillomethodian Sources and their Basic Problems – On the Sources of Matthew of Janov’s Doctrine – The Influence of the Czech Reformation in the District of Kladsko – Hus’ Trial at the Council of Constance – The Ethos of the Unitas Fratrum – John Blahoslav, ‘Father and Charioteer of the Lord’s People in the Unitas Fratrum’ – A Bohemian Exile in Cromwell’s England: The Career of George Ritschel, Philosopher, Schoolmaster, and Cleric – The Role of Aristocratic Entrepreneurship in the Industrial Development of the Czech Lands, 1750-1850 – Czech Peasantry in 1848 – Soviet Historians on the Origin of the Conflict between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Bolsheviks in May 1918 – D. MUSIC – The Influence of Folklore on the Modern Czech School of Composition – Jána?ek’s London Visit – Bohuslav Martin? – Czechoslovak Music in the American Music Literature – E. FINE ARTS – The Beautiful Style in the Sculpture around 1400 – Realism and Classicism in the Representation of a Painful Scene: Titan’s ‘Flaying of Marsyas’ in the Archiépiscopal Palace at Krom??íz – Oskar Kokoschka and Masaryk – The Position of Czech and Slovak Art in the International Art World – Thoughts on Recent Czechoslovak Architecture – F. SOCIAL SCIENCES – Linguistic Conditions among Czechoslovak Jewry. A Legal-Historical Study – ‘The Sokol Movement’ — A Tribute to the National Revival and Culture of the Czechoslovak Nation – A Small Nation in the International System : Czechoslovakia’s Experience and Example – Political Parties. The Experience of Czechoslovakia – The Crisis of Socialism and Czechoslovak Social Democracy – T. G. Masaryk’s Contribution to Sociology – T. G. Masaryk as We See him Today – Milan Hodža and Federation in Central and Eastern Europe – Sociological Publications in Czechoslovakia between 1930-1940 as an Object for the Sociology of Knowledge – Psychological Trends in Czechoslovak Democratic Education – G. PHYSICAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES – Mendel, His Work and His Place in History – Forensic Medicine at the Medical School of the University of Prague. Contribution to the History of Forensic Medicine in Czechoslovakia – Jaroslav Bakeš, Surgeon, Naturalist, and Philanthropist – Some Notes on Czechoslovak Microbiology and Biological Sciences from 1875 to 1925 – Jind?ich Matiegka and his Contributions to Physical Anthropology – Bernard Bolzano, Czech Pioneer of Modem Mathematics – Past and Present Aspects of Czech Phytogeography and Climatology – Exact Sciences in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1958 – Czechoslovak Psychiatry, Past and Present – H. BIBLIOGRAPHY – Czechoslovakia in Bibliography: A Bibliography of Bibliographies – Contributors to this Work – INDEX