`Tis to Create and in Creating Live. Essays in Honour of Martin

’Tis to Create and in Creating Live. Essays in Honour of Martin Procházka
Edited by Ondřej Pilný and Mirka Horová
Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Martin Procházka. A Tribute
ROMANTICISM AND ROMANTICISMS
Drummond Bone
Mirror or Watery Outline? Byron’s Childe Harold, Canto IV, Stanzas 183-84 and Don Juan, Canto XV,
Stanzas 2 and 99
Mirka Horová
“How Vain to War with What Thy God Commands”: Performing Divine Violence in Byron’s Heaven
and Earth
Timothy Webb
“Affectionate Habit”: Leigh Hunt and the Attractions of the Arabian Nights
Zdeněk Beran
Keats, Hopkins and the Conceptions of Self
Ladislav Nagy
Poetically Man Dwells, or John Clare Resurrected
Bohuslav Mánek
Karel Ferdinand Dräxler and Early Czech Reception of English Romanticism
Zdeněk Hrbata
O poetice Kapitána Fracasse
Ondřej Pilný
On the Politics of the Grotesque in Contemporary Drama
SHAKESPEARE IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
David Vichnar
Something Inferior Or Something Different: Marlowe’s Barabas Versus Shakespeare’s Shylock
Soňa Nováková
“Mine Want Their Learning, Reading, Language, Wit”: Women’s Writing on Shakespeare, 1664-1775
Martin Humpál
Ibsen’s Relation to Shakespeare: From Respect to Rejection
Klára Kolinská
Le Grand Will: Rewriting Shakespeare in Francophone Canada
Peter Cochran
Shakespeare on Screen: Four Versions of Henry IV I and II
THEORY AND HISTORY
Murray Pittock
What Is the Place of Theories of Nationalism in a Transnational Age?
Helena Znojemská
Formal Innovation and (Re)Invention of the Past in the Old English Battle of Brunanburh and
Tennyson’s Version of the Poem
Martin a Blanka Kovářovi
Ke vzniku a vývoji anglické (britské) parlamentní monarchie v první fázi její existence aneb Světla a
stíny pozdně stuartovského a raně hannoverského věku (1660-1745/46)
Michael C. Frank
“What If…”: The Counterfactual in Terrorism Discourse and Literary Fiction
Randolph Starn
Touching the Intangible: Towards an Alternative Genealogy of Intellectual Property
Petr Onufer
A Host of Angels: On Rhetorical Strategies, Discursive Differences and Convergence in the Debate
between M.H. Abrams and J. Hillis Miller
Louis Armand
James Joyce & the Obscene Object of Post/Humanism
Erik S. Roraback
The Dialectical Legacies of Jacques Derrida’s Glas
Clare Wallace
“All the Old Ghosts”: Monologue and Memory in Friel, Pinter and Beckett
AMERICAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
David L. Robbins
Gatsby as Christopher Newman: In the Emersonian Modernist Mood
Michal Peprník
Configuring the Topos of the Sea in James Fenimore Cooper’s First Sea Novel The Pilot
Kamila Vránková
The Theme of Transformation and the Experience of the Sublime in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s WonderBook for Girls and Boys and Tanglewood Tales
Christopher E. Koy
The Idiosyncrasies of Tricksterism in Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”
Pavla Veselá
Who Pressed the Button: Judith Merril’s “That Only a Mother” and Philip Wylie’s The Answer
Hana Ulmanová
In Search of a Literary Canon
Prof. PhDr. Martin Procházka, CSc. – Bibliography
Tabula Gratulatoria
Contributors