Miloslav Rechcigl: Czechoslovakia Past and Present / Essays on the arts and sciences

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 Hod?a 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 Bake?, 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