The Moravian Journal of Literature and Film is an international scholarly journal whose objective is to be a platform for an intersection of literary and film history, criticism, and theory. The journal examines literatures and films in any language, thus …
Vol. 10, Nos. 1–2 (2019)
Articles Affectionate Accuracy? Willa Cather’s Representations of Bohemian ImmigrantsKristýna Brázdilová and Michal Peprník Toxic Femininity and Tomboyish Agency: Reshaping Southern Nostagia in Sharp ObjectsVeronika Klusáková The Virtuous Spy: From Major André to Captain ThorneTomáš Kačer What Lies Beneath: Sam Shepard’s …
Vol. 9, Nos. 1–2 (2018)
Articles “Secret Female Jokes”: Self-Conscious Paranoia and the Female Postmodern Condition in Diane Johnson’s The Shadow KnowsTereza Walsbergerová The Death of Joan Vollmer and Decoding William S. Burroughs’s WorkAntonín Zita The Creative Power of the Woman Artist in Willa Cather’s …
Vol. 8, Nos. 1–2 (2017)
Articles The Promise of Rain: Representation of Place in Louis Owens’s Nightland Hana Sobotková JFK and Jed Bartlet: Catholic Archetypes, Catholic Stereotypes, Catholic Fictions John Andreas Fuchs Sociological Storytelling in Film and Literature Vincent N. Parrillo Beyond Individual Space: The …
Vol. 7, Nos. 1–2 (2016)
Articles The Specters of the Unspoken Past: Trauma in Graham Swift’s Wish You Were Here Petr Chalupský The American Dream in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Evan Oxman Racism and Fascism in Roger Corman’s Film Adaptation …
Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 2015)
Articles Blessed Family History: Inventing the Past in Louis Owens’s “Blessed Sunshine”> Hana Sobotková Mary Lambert’s Film Adaptation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: Edna Pontellier as an Aphrodite/Venus Figure in Grand Isle Tara Hembrough Negotiating the Quandaries of Post-9/11 Pakistani …
Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2015)
Articles Ascension of the Pop Icon: The Creativity of Kitsch (Not Only) in a Music Video by Lana Del Rey Tomáš Jirsa Leonard Cohen, the Priest of a Catacomb Religion Jiří Měsíc “A Shameless Assimilationist” in a State of Evolution: …
Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2014)
Articles Travels into History: Ernest J. Gaines’s African-American Odyssey in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gérald Préher The Sneaky Victory of a Genre: The Story of One Czech Western Petr Bilík “Becoming Anglicised?” The Increasing Importance of English Characters …
Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2014)
Articles A Literary Genealogy: Faulkner, García Márquez, and Mo Yan M. Thomas Inge Paul Robeson’s Ambiguous Film Legacy Paul Von Blum The Cognitive Model of the Vampire and Its Accommodation in the Twentieth Century Ivan Čipkár Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans …
Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 2013)
Articles Love and Death in 1950s Suburbia: The Novel and Film Revolutionary Road Richard A. Voeltz National and Transnational Identities in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh Radek Glabazňa Ethnic Diaspora through the Kitchen: Foodways in the Postcolonial Feminist Discourse …
Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2013)
Articles James Fenimore Cooper as a Western Author and the 1920 Film Adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans Michal Peprník “I Will Pay That Price as a Poet to Speak My Truth”: Feminism, Activism, and the Historical Moment of …
Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2012)
Articles P. L. Travers, Walt Disney, and the Making of Mary Poppins M. Thomas Inge Barry Hannah: In the Academy but Not of It Brad Vice Growing Up Barbadian American: Assimilation, Ethnicity and Identity in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule …
Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2011)
Articles James Fenimore Cooper as a War Novelist Jozef Pecina For a Breath of Air: Scottishness in the Writing of Kathleen Jamie Pavlína Flajšarová The Assertion of Body for a Sense of Place in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams Jiannan Tang …
Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 2011)
Articles Reconfiguring Gender Roles in Russian-German Imaginary Families Patricia Anne Simpson Bonding and Moving On: Southern Female Companions in Motion (Pictures) Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis From Heteroglossia to Worldmaking: Fictions of Robert Burns and Iain (M.) Banks Martin Procházka Žižek’s Act and …
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 2010)
Articles Polk County: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black South and the Quest for a “real Negro theater” Diana Rosenhagen Putting the Dynamic Past to Everyday Use in the Fiction of Southern Women Writers Julia Sattler Putting the Dynamic Past to Everyday …
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2010)
Articles Heretical Capital: Walter Benjamin’s Cult Status in Cultural and Theoretical History Erik S. Roraback To State the Problem Correctly: Facing the Black Tickets in Jayne Anne Phillips’s Machine Dreams James Grove Ideal Carer: The Contemporary Southern White Elite Matron …
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 2009)
Living Cultural Plurality: A Tribute to Josef Jařab Michal Peprník and Marcel Arbeit Josef Jařab Heinz Ickstadt Articles Josef Jařab: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1966–2009 Marcel Arbeit Not on Native GroundsNot on Native Grounds Werner Sollors Multicultural Optimism or the Potential …
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The Moravian Journal of Literature and Film welcomes contributions in literary, film, and cultural studies exploring all aspects of the disciplines. Send essays electronically to moravianjournal@upol.cz, or, mail printed essays accompanied by a compact disc with the electronic version to …