Contents
Preface (Ludmila Urbanová)                                                                                     3
Conference opening speech (Jan Pavlík)                                                                    7
Part One - Literature
1    Don Sparling
Appropriating Thanksgiving - Plenary lecture                                                         9
2    Alice Brabcová
Marriage in Seventeenth-Century England: The Woman's Story                               21
3    Šárka Bubíková
The Formation and Transformation of the American Literary Canon                          25
4    Kenneth Froehling
Canadian Media Commentary on Resurgent Anti-Semitism and Israel in the 21st Century                                                                                                            29
5    Josef Grmela
The Czech Reception of Irish Literature: the 1930s                                                 39
6    Anna Grmelová
Beyond the Traditional: An Attempt to Reassess E. M. Forster's Fiction                    45
7    Pavlína Hácová
The Stream Never Forgets Its Source: Themes explored in Lara (1997) by
Bernardine Evaristo                                                                                           51
8    Stephen Hardy
A Barking Dog?: Manchester Writing and English Regional Culture                          57
9    Lucie Johnová
Patterns of Crossdressing in Shakespeare's Comedies                                              65
10  Michael M. Kaylor
'The Divine Friend, Unknown, Most Desired': The Problematic Uranian Poets           71
11  Blanka Klímová
Lexical Analysis of Annual Reports                                                                      77
12  Stanislav Kolář
Animal Imagery in Kosinski's The Painted Bird and Spiegelman's Maus                   87
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13  Christopher E. Koy
The Misunderstood Conclusion of Mark Twain's Pudd 'nhead Wilson                        93
14  Jaroslav Kušnír
Parody of Western in American Literature: Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times,
and R. Coover's The Ghost Town                                                                        101
15  Lidia Kyzlinková
Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine: Social Thriller, Ethnicity and Englishness                      109
16  Bohuslav Manek
The Czech Reception of G. M. Hopkin's Poetry                                                     115
17  Soňa Nováková
Sex and Politics: Delarivier Manley's New Atalantis                                               121
18  Libora Oates-Indruchová
Initiation Motives in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride                                     127
19  NilüferÖcel
Reading Films Through Different Glasses: Foreign Films in the Context of Turkey     135
20  Michal Peprník
The Recoil Effect of Retaliation: Leatherstocking's Unerring Arm of ('Divine'?)
Justice                                                                                                             153
21  Patricia Račková
The Angel with a Hoof: Metamorphosis in Golding's The Spire                                159
22  Jiří Rambousek
Between Language Play and Language Game                                                        165
23  Ralph Slayton
A Post-postmodern Reading of Lotte Kramer's 'Ice'                                               173
24  Kamila Velkoborská
J. A. Harrison: An Extraordinary Victorian Scholar                                                177
25  Helena Vladařova
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986): A Quest of A New Life                                           181
26  Rudolf Weiss
Mise en abyme in Pat Barker's Regeneration                                                         189
27  Olga Zderadičková
Scottish National Identity in the Works of James Kelman                                        195
28  Jakub Zeníšek
Slave Narratives as Part of the American Literary Canon                                         201
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