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