This comparative study analyzes the ways that Central European writers used stereotypes of
the Turks to develop their national identities from the early modern period to the present …

The year 1989 marked a change in the political system of Czechoslovakia, as in all countries
behind the Iron Curtain. Many prominent individuals who had been excluded from public life …

This article focuses on those Iliadic characters who fall in battle to the poem's major heroes.
Homer has various ways to make these characters minor, such as through processes of …

Whereas" standard histories" of Habsburg Central Europe rest on the historiographic
traditions highlighting exile, emigration, and twentieth-century political genocides, the" …

At least since Aristotle's Peri hermeneias, there has been talk of the pathos of language, of
language as" symbols of the affections in the soul." The way these affections are registered …

Franz Kafka's encounter with Yitzchak Löwy (1911–12), Yiddish theatre, and Yiddish
language has often been regarded in the context of his quest for his Jewish roots and his …

Taking Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's theory of minor literature as a starting point, this
article moves from their opposition of “major/minor” literatures to their “tetralinguistic” model …

The theory of minor literature (based on Kafka's hybrid identity in Prague) is applicable to the
complex case of Czech and Slovak-Romani writing, including fictional portrayals of the …

The article examines the constructed “old Prague”(Alt‑Prag), in which scholarly and popular
literature placed Franz Kafka. This reductive construct emerged during the rapid …

Deleuze and Guattari's 1975 text, Kafka, pour une littérature mineure, posited a theory
concerning some groups of literary texts including those of Franz Kafka. Their theory was …