Founded In    2009
Published   semiannually
Language(s)   English
     

Fields of Interest

 

Literature, Film

     
ISSN   1803-7720
     
Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Marcel Arbeit, Palack� University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Managing Editor
Roman Tru�n�k, Tomas Bata University in Zl�n, Czech Republic

Editorial Board
Jan Nordby Gretlund, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Constante Gonz�lez Groba, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Jakub Guziur, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Nigel Hatton, University of California, Merced, USA
Bernd Herzogenrath, Frankfurt University, Germany
Heinz Ickstadt, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Josef Jařab, Palack� University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Stanislav Kol�ř, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Bohuslav M�nek, University of Hradec Kr�lov�, Czech Republic
Tom�� Posp��il, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Martin Proch�zka, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Lubo� Pt�ček, Palack� University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Erik S. Roraback, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Werner Sollors, Harvard University, USA

Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policies

The Moravian Journal of Literature and Film welcomes contributions in literary, film, and cultural studies exploring all aspects of the disciplines. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Send essays electronically to moravianjournal@upol.cz, or, mail printed essays accompanied by a compact disc with the electronic version to Moravian Journal of Literature and Film, Department of English and American Studies, Philosophical Faculty, Palack� University, Olomouc, Kř��kovsk�ho 10, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Essays should conform to the humanities style (notes and bibliography), as defined in the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. A stylesheet is available on the journal’s website. The editors can assume no responsibility for loss of manuscripts. Manuscripts shall not be submitted simultaneously elsewhere.

     
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Moravian Journal of Literature and Film
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Philosophical Faculty
Palack� University, Olomouc
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Moravian Journal of Literature and Film

The Moravian Journal of Literature and Film, founded in 2009, is a Czech scholarly journal whose objective is to be a platform for an intersection of literary and film history, criticism, and theory. The journal examines literatures and films in any language, thus merging both regional and universal themes. The journal is published in English, has been peer-reviewed since its foundation, and has two issues a year.

 

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Fall 2011, Volume 3,, Number 1

James Fenimore Cooper as a War Novelist


James Fenimore Cooper was the first internationally recognized American novelist and a pioneer in the field of frontier and sea novels. His Leatherstocking Tales are among his most famous works, but he is also the author of a number of novels set during the American Revolution. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (1821) and Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston (1825) are early examples of what may be termed military novels. In both Cooper relied on extensive research and in both he used important events of the Revolution as a background for the actions of his characters. The article examines Cooper's treatment of war and the role that his novels played in the development of the war novel genre.

For a Breath of Air: Scottishness in the Writing of Kathleen Jamie


The paper focuses on Scottish features that permeate the work of Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962). Her Scottishness is manifested in poetry, prose, and travel non-fiction. Jamie draws upon the tradition of landscape literature and theories of imagination of the English Romantic poets. The article investigates Jamie's affinity to the Scottish countryside as manifested in her lyric poetry and in a series of personal essays in her non-fiction volume Findings. Another theme discussed by the article is Jamie's choice of language -- her use of Scots as compared to the use of standard English. The essay also analyzes Jamie's exploration of the relationship of poetry and science. The poetic process of imagination is contrasted in her writings with scientific observation. In the final section, Jamie's interest in her own heritage is explored in texts that juxtapose Scottish culture with the cultures of Pakistan, Tibet, and China.

The Assertion of Body for a Sense of Place in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams


Mainly integrating the theories of Edward S. Casey, the phenomenologist, and Karan Barad, the feminist, this essay argues that the assertion of body is significantly helpful for Codi, the protagonist in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams, in acquiring a sense of place. Through an understanding of her father's interpretation of the body, a dynamic interaction between the body and the memory, Codi can eventually find herself a part of the community instead of feeling displaced in her own hometown.

Lillian Smith, Racial Segregation, Civil Rights and American Democracy


The writer Lillian Smith was the white southerner who fought most strongly against the dictatorship of southern tradition and the totalitarian ideology of segregation. She usually placed her arguments against segregation in a global context by showing that the U.S. would undermine itself in the eyes of the world if it continued to cling to democracy for whites only. She saw the Supreme Court Brown ruling of May 17, 1954, as the beginning of a new phase in race relations, but she was conscious that the court's decision had not changed people's hearts and minds in the way that her friend Martin Luther King's movement seemed to do. Acquainted with the ideas of Gandhi before King became leader, Smith agreed wholeheartedly with the practice of nonviolent active resistance and, like King, she believed that moderation would never solve the crisis. Convinced that segregation originated in the fear of something not fully understood, Lillian Smith used her rhetorical powers to refute the psychology of racism and allay the fears exploited by demagogues.

"Almost a Western": The Deep South as the Mythic West in William Gay's The Long Home


The essay outlines the workings of the Frontier Myth and shows how it has influenced contemporary southern writers, in this case the Tennessee writer William Gay. Gay is widely regarded as a southern writer, but in his debut novel The Long Home (1999) he draws heavily on traits from the American western. The essay discusses how elements of the Western myth fuse with characteristics of the southern Agrarian tradition. The western elements can be found in Gay's depiction of landscape and characters, as well as in the larger thematic oppositions of civilization and wilderness. Ultimately, Gay succeeds in fusing the literary traditions of the South with the literary and filmic conventions of the popular western, thereby expanding the range of southern fiction.

Review of Le Sud au Cinéma: de The Birth of a Nation à Cold Mountain, edited by Marie Liénard-Yeterian and Taïna Tuhkunen. Paris: Les Éditions de L'École Polytechnique, 2009. 249 p. ISBN 978-2-7302-1546-6.


Review of Kopecký, Petr. The California Crucible: Literary Harbingers of Deep Ecology. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2007. 201 p. ISBN 978-80-7368-318-4.


Other Issues

Fall 2014, Volume 5, Number 2
Spring 2012, Volume 3, Number 2
Spring 2011, Volume 2, Number 2
Fall 2010, Volume 2, Number 1
Spring 2010, Volume 1, Number 2
Fall 2009, Volume 1, Number 1