Published:
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Hradec Králové
Czech Republic
ISSN: 2336-3347
Volume’s editor: Jan Suk
The complete electronic version can be downloaded here. The printed and electronic versions of the proceedings are identical.
Contents
Michaela Marková
Expanding Horizons: The Survey of Contemporary Research in English
LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Petr Anténe
Family, History and the Formation of Identity in Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Juraj Bakoš
Northrop Frye Flies to Mars: Theory of Modes across Martian Fiction
Francesca Battaglia
Classical Music in the Sherlock Holmes Films by Guy Ritchie: A Game of Seduction and Predation.
Veronika Briatková
Suffering as a result of ghosts in the mind: The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Babadook
Ivan Čipkár
The Girl Who Prospered: The Implied Author as an Integrative Hermeneutic Device in Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf”
Markéta Gregorová
Searching for the Dear Green Place in Agnes Owens’s Like Birds in the Wilderness
Anna Mikyšková
The Image of “Turkishness” on the Jacobean Stage
Jozef Pecina
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker’s The Partisan Leader: A Preview of the Civil War
Veronika Rychlá
Representation of Animals in Literature Matters
Alice Tihelková
Loving to Hate Jeremy Corbyn: The Depiction of the Current Labour Leader in the British Press
Tanya Varvanina
Public Spectacles in Restoration England: The Theatricality of the Political and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
LINGUISTICS AND METHODOLOGY
Blanka Babická, Josef Nevařil
Learning politeness in a foreign language – the case of speaking activities in English coursebooks at the advanced level
Monika Hřebačková
Teaching English for Marketable Skills
Lucie Kučerová
Topic and Turn-taking in Talk Show Discourse
Petra Peldová
Patterns of Evaluation in British Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspapers
Olga Prosyannikova
The Interrelation of Meaning in Syncretic Forms of Noun/Verb Type
Helena Zitková, Marek Vít
Popular Songs in the English Classroom in Czech Lower-Secondary and Secondary Education
BOOK REVIEWS
Michaela Weiss
From Romantic Hero to Nameless Youth: American War Novels in the 19th Century.