Brno Studies in English

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Brno Studies in English (published since 1959) is an open, peer reviewed international journal publishing articles from the fields of English and American studies. Starting from 2009, two issues will be published annually.

Theory and Practice in English Studies

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Řada sborníků Theory and Practice in English Studies - published since 2003 - brings the proceedings of the Conferences of English, American and Canadian Studies, held in Brno since 1986.

A Defence of Uranian Love by Edward Perry Warren
Edited and introduced by Michael Matthew Kaylor

Edward Perry Warren’s three-volume A Defence of Uranian Love, written under his pseudonym Arthur Lyon Raile and privately printed in 1928-1930, can be judiciously labelled “the premier paederastic apologia in the language.” Warren always and rightly called this work his magnum opus: it is the clearest elucidation of the motives that lay behind his acquisition of Graeco-Roman antiquities for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and other prominent collections. Warren’s acquisition practices converted those antiquities into a “paederastic evangel,” as he himself admits, and his Defence is intimately woven into this life-long, evangelistic mission.
Michael Matthew Kaylor, edited, with an introduction and notes, Edward Perry Warren (writing as Arthur Lyon Raile), A Defence of Uranian Love, 3 volumes in 1, with translations from the Greek and Latin, notes, and an afterword by Mark Robert Miner, and with a foreword by William Armstrong Percy III (Kansas City, MO: Valancourt Books, 2009 [privately printed in 1928-1930]), 468 pages.

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ISBN-10: 1-934555-69-X; ISBN-13: 9781934555699

Petr Kyloušek, Klára Kolinská, Kateřina Prajznerová,
Tomáš Pospíšil, Eva Vlodřichová Beránková, Petr Horák

MY ONI JÁ
Hledání identity v kanadské literatuře a filmu

Modern textbook with e-learning support
Brno: HOST 2009. ISBN 978-80-7294-306-7

Canada represents a unique environment for studying literary and cultural questions of the relations between various linguistic, ethnocultural, social and individual identities. Both Anglophone Canadian and Francophone Canadian literatures, as well as the film, have been impacted by issues including images of one's self and the other, identity and alterity, integration and exclusion, hybridization and the mixing of values. The book develops a synthesis based on an analysis of contrasting points of view: Anglophone Canadian and Francophone Canadian as well as the points of view of Canada's First Nations, immigrant communities and other groups. Literary works are examined through the prism of cultural identity models ranging from conceptualized and theoretically based discourses to non conceptualized poses; the structuring and dynamics of systems of values is examined using integrating and separatist factors. Literature is placed into a broader, non literary context: on the one hand issues relating to identity, alterity, universalism and multiculturalism will be placed within a general historical philosophical framework that will allow the better development of general principles; on the other hand, those cultural areas where the language barrier is less pronounced and which offer the possibility of a more unified approach, i.e. the visual arts and cinema, is also examined. This approach allows to show the relationship between diversity and unity.

Jarmila Fictumová, John Ceccarelli, Tony Long
Angličtina – konverzace pro pokročilé
Topic-based Vocabulary for Advaced Learners

Modern textbook with e-learning support

Společnost pro odbornou literaturu – Barrister & Principal, Brno 2008
ISBN 978-80-87029-40-4

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Ludmila Urbanová
Stylistika anglického jazyka
(Stylistics of the English Language

Unlike the previous publication Úvod do anglické stylistiky (Barrister & Principal 2002, together with Andrew Oakland), the book does not cover practical aspects of creating texts, e.g. punctuation, word order, and letter-writing. It deals more with the theoretical aspects of stylistics, especially the relations between form, meaning, and the function of verbal and non-verbal expression and utterancesvíce.

Společnost pro odbornou literaturu – Barrister & Principal, Brno 2008
in cooperation with the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
ISBN 978-80-87029-29-9

Naděžda Kudrnáčová
Directed Motion at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

The study investigates semantic and syntactic aspects of motion in relation to its directionality. It takes into consideration not only the semantic structure of motion verbs and their syntactic behaviour but also a causal structuration of motion events. This approach has made it possible to posit directed motion as a distinct category and to illustrate the non-additive status of the directionality of motion as it asserts itself not only at a semantic and a syntactic level but also at the level of the causal structuration of motion events.

Masaryk University, Brno 2008.
ISBN 978-80-210-4522-4