Despite having a rather weak family connection to Ireland, the American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) described herself in a letter to Ezra Pound in 1919 as ‘Irish by descent’. This thesis relates Moore’s claim of Irish descent to her career as a publisher, poet and playwright, and argues that her decision to shape an Irish inheritance for herself was linked with her self-identification as an American poet. Chapter 1 discusses Moore’s self-confessed susceptibility to ‘Irish magic’ in relation to the increase in contributions from Irish writers during her editorship of The Dial magazine from 1925 to 1929. Moore’s 1915 poems to the Irish writers George Moore, W. B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, which reveal a paradoxical desire for affiliation to, and disassociation from, Irish literary traditions, are scrutinized in Chapter 2. Chapters 3a and b discuss Moore’s ‘Irish’ poems ‘Sojourn in the Whale’ (1917) and ‘Spenser’s Ireland’ (1941). In both poems political events in Ireland – the ‘Easter Rising’ of 1916 and Ireland’s policy of neutrality during World War II – become a backdrop for Moore’s personal anxieties as an American poet of ‘Irish’ descent coming to terms with her political and cultural inheritance. Expanding upon previous chapters’ discussion of the interrelation of poetics and politics, Chapter 4 shows how Moore’s use of Irish sources in ‘Spenser’s Ireland’ and other poems including ‘Silence’ and the ‘Student’ reflects her quixotic attitude to Irish culture as alternately an inspiration and a tool for manipulation. The final chapter discusses Moore’s adaptation of the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth’s 1812 novel The Absentee as a play in 1954. Through this last piece of ‘Irish’ writing, Moore adopts a sentimentality that befits the later stages of her career and illustrates how Irish literature, rather than Irish politics, has emerged as her ultimate source of inspiration.

The topic of my thesis focuses on the phenomenon of popular music in the area of Central Europe, which in the 20th century had been characterized by the presence of the ruling Communist ideology. The work will be based primarily on popular music and its changes in the 70s and 80s of 20th century in Hungary. The issue will be approached from cultural- historical perspective and its focus will be tension between the official cultural program and the need to respond to the requirements of the recipient at the time. Basic structure consists of the situation in Hungary, which will be compared to the situation in Czechoslovakia, there will be outlined the main common points that have an impact on Central European culture and politics, as well as the specifics of the Hungarian situation. Also the relation to the export of Hungarian popular music abroad will be mentioned.

Esta tese estuda a trajetória de duas latino-americanas: a mexicana Antonieta Rivas Mercado (1900-1931) e a brasileira Patrícia Galvão (1910-1962). Mulheres de facetas múltiplas, marcadas por diferenças sociais, políticas e ideológicas. Foram consideradas transgressoras de normas sociais e culturais vigentes, ao ultrapassarem fronteiras, apontando outras possibilidades de ação para as mulheres no espaço público, participando ativamente de movimentos artísticos e políticos que propunham mudanças. As fontes privilegiadas da investigação foram as escritas de si (cartas, autobiografia e diário pessoal). Por meio delas, lapidaram imagens de si perante seus interlocutores, refletiram e se pronunciaram sobre questões relacionadas a tensões próprias às dificuldades de conciliação entre a vida privada (maternidade, casamento, divórcio, tradição) e a atuação pública (no âmbito da cultura e da política). Como mulheres representativas de um tempo de mudanças, assumiram, em distintos níveis, de forma sutil ou declarada, que a maternidade não era o único ou maior projeto de suas vidas, passando a disputar espaço com outros papeis e lugares que desejaram viver e incorporar como parte da vivência feminina. / This thesis studies the trajectory of two Latin American women: Antonieta Rivas Mercado (1900 1931) and Patrícia Galvão (1910 1962). They were women with multiple faces, marked by social, political, and ideological differences. They had been considered transgressors of the prevailing social and cultural rules. They crossed borders showing other possibilities to acting in the public scenario, and participating actively in the artistic and political movements, which would propose changes. The privileged sources for this investigation were the writings of self (letters, autobiography and personal diaries). They built images of themselves reflecting and giving opinions about issues related to tensions involving difficulties to conciliate private life (motherhood, marriage, divorce, tradition) and public acting with the public actuation (in the cultural and political scope). As women living on a time of changes, they took over in distinct levels, in a subtle or declared way, that motherhood was not the only or the most important project in their lives.

Esta tese estuda a trajetória de duas latino-americanas: a mexicana Antonieta Rivas Mercado (1900-1931) e a brasileira Patrícia Galvão (1910-1962). Mulheres de facetas múltiplas, marcadas por diferenças sociais, políticas e ideológicas. Foram consideradas transgressoras de normas sociais e culturais vigentes, ao ultrapassarem fronteiras, apontando outras possibilidades de ação para as mulheres no espaço público, participando ativamente de movimentos artísticos e políticos que propunham mudanças. As fontes privilegiadas da investigação foram as escritas de si (cartas, autobiografia e diário pessoal). Por meio delas, lapidaram imagens de si perante seus interlocutores, refletiram e se pronunciaram sobre questões relacionadas a tensões próprias às dificuldades de conciliação entre a vida privada (maternidade, casamento, divórcio, tradição) e a atuação pública (no âmbito da cultura e da política). Como mulheres representativas de um tempo de mudanças, assumiram, em distintos níveis, de forma sutil ou declarada, que a maternidade não era o único ou maior projeto de suas vidas, passando a disputar espaço com outros papeis e lugares que desejaram viver e incorporar como parte da vivência feminina. / This thesis studies the trajectory of two Latin American women: Antonieta Rivas Mercado (1900 1931) and Patrícia Galvão (1910 1962). They were women with multiple faces, marked by social, political, and ideological differences. They had been considered transgressors of the prevailing social and cultural rules. They crossed borders showing other possibilities to acting in the public scenario, and participating actively in the artistic and political movements, which would propose changes. The privileged sources for this investigation were the writings of self (letters, autobiography and personal diaries). They built images of themselves reflecting and giving opinions about issues related to tensions involving difficulties to conciliate private life (motherhood, marriage, divorce, tradition) and public acting with the public actuation (in the cultural and political scope). As women living on a time of changes, they took over in distinct levels, in a subtle or declared way, that motherhood was not the only or the most important project in their lives.

This article proceeds from the observation that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin—two politicians frequently correlated and compared since Trump’s bid for the Presidency—have been remarkably successful in mobilizing support for their politics and in seemingly immunizing their rhetorics against vernacular critique. To work toward an understanding of this phenomenon, we propose to look at how political communication by and around the two politicians draws on forms and venues of popular culture. Both contexts, we will argue, have developed new strategies for the instrumentalization of popular culture, strategies that, while actualized differently in the two settings, revolve around an ‘invective turn’ in political communication—a radicalization of the familiar nationalist rhetoric of ‘us versus them’ that seems specifically fueled by pop-cultural forms. To explore this traffic between pop and politics, this article puts into conversation two case studies: On the one hand, of Trump’s campaign speeches which, we contend, symbolically organize around the logic of agôn—of the competitive game—as it has coagulated in the reality-tv genre of the gamedoc. On the other hand, we look at (state-controlled) pop music in the Russian genre of Ėstrada which, thus our argument, advertises a distinct form of patriotism through the principle of ‘glamour.’ Glamour, in Putin’s Russia, operates simultaneously as a style and as an ideology of self-glorification. The article will outline how reality tv’s logic of agôn and patriotic pop music’s aesthetics of glamour each fuel a qualitatively new orientation of political discourse toward the aesthetically charged, affect-saturated denigration of others and valorization of self.

The thesis deals with Czech translations of Swedish literature and their reception between 1948 and 1989. Against the background of contemporary societal changes and culture policy, it tries to answer the questions who, why, when and under which circumstances translated Swedish literature and how the political situation influenced the selection, the translation process and the publishing of the works. The thesis describes individual translations in their contemporary historical, cultural and social context. It also includes reactions to Swedish literature in Czech press, most notably reactions were published in the Světová literatura journal. The thesis also contains a bibliography of the translations that were published during the period and profiles of the most prominent translators.

Beschneidung umfasst einschränkende, genitalverändernde und -normierende Eingriffe. Zu unterscheiden sind unter anderem die Vorhautbeschneidung bei Jungen sowie Genitalbeschneidungen bei Mädchen in christlichen, islamischen und jüdischen Traditionen, medizinisch indizierte Praxen, genitale Schönheitschirurgie und genitalvereinheitlichende Behandlungen intergeschlechtlicher Neugeborener. Letztere sind wie die religiös motivierten Eingriffe Thema anhaltender rechtlicher und ethischer Debatten.

The disertation is focused on development and importance of the Czechoslovak desk of the Radio Free Europe in period between 1950 and 1994. This broadcasting have gained in time of strong censorship significant and till now unresearched importance. In February 1948 the Communist party took power in the Czechoslovakia. After that Czech and Slovak democratic politicians had left country to the West. They wanted to break the isolation of people living behind the Iron Curtain and promote restoration of democracy in their homeland. In 1949 was in the USA established the National Committee for Free Europe as fomally independent citizens association. As its most known activity had became the Radio Free Europe (RFE). This radio station had became an important tool for political strugle between two blocks in time of the Cold War. The basic qestion is what real position RFE broadcasting have reached in this struggle. The estabilishing of foreign broadcasting to the Czechoslovakia was very difficult task. RFE started its activity as exiles platform for purpose of liberation the Czechoslovakia from rule of the Communistic Party regime. The programming position of the RFE was in reality influented by american politicians and was depending on changing global political conditions as well. The unique position of...