Pavla Veselá
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pavla Veselá |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pavla |
| FAMILY NAME | Veselá |
| SIGNATURE | VESELA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8613-9235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maps of Utopian Places
“The Moving Horizon Of Classless Harmonies” In Darko Suvin’s Poetry
The article discusses selected poetry by Darko Suvin against the background of his theoretical writings about science fiction, utopia and poetry. It argues that Suvin’s poetry estranges the ideological view of the present and history as an inevitable reproduction of injustice and alienation. The focus is on several poems included in the collections The Long March: Notes on the Way 1981–1984 (1987) and Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Scienc…
Communism, Poetry
Although to the readers of Utopian Studies Darko Suvin remains perhaps best known for his criticism of science fiction, much of his recent writing has fallen into the category of Marxist political epistemology. Of note are In Leviathan’s Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time (2012), his analysis of former Yugoslavia in Splendour, Misery, and Potentialities: An X-ray of Socialist Yugoslavia (2017) as well as a number of shorter works on s…
Reading Lyman Tower Sargent Along with William Morris
Ever since I encountered Lyman Tower Sargent's writing, he has signified to me a scholar whose lifelong dedication to utopian thought and literature has nurtured generations of students, critics, and practitioners of utopia. It is for this reason that my birthday wishes briefly place Lyman's work alongside that of William Morris—a writer, critic, designer, and activist whose inspiration was the past
Poetry in Utopian Prose
In ‘Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy’, Chantal Mouffe has argued that passions, rather than merely reason and interests, motivate people to act in politics and the only way to confront the mobilization of passions towards non-democratic ends by the Right is to mobilize passions towards democratic visions. Although poetry does not hold central stage in contemporary cultural production, it continues to mobilize various passions. There…
The “Czech-In” of Thomas More's Utopia
The aim of the article is to discuss two Czech translations of Thomas More's Utopia—one from 1950 by Bohumil Ryba, the other from 1911(?) by Jiří Foustka—and to survey debates that Utopia generated in the Czech context. Proceeding nonchronologically, I introduce several recently published critical studies about More, including Helena Tampierová's Thomas More: Státník a teolog (Thomas More: Statesman and Theologian) and Bohumil Svoboda's Thomas Mo…
Utopian Studies in the Czech and Slovak Republics
The article sketches activities in the field of utopian studies in the Czech Republic (with some references to the Slovak context). It begins as a brief venture into Czech utopian literature and literary criticism. Subsequently, it provides examples of research and activities carried out in other disciplines, in order to illustrate that utopia continues to preoccupy a multitude of Czech and Slovak writers, critics, filmmakers, and architects, amo…
A Highly Charged Pronoun
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the US establishment strove to reaffirm a vision of a unified American nation. The dominant rhetoric employed strategies typical of community building, such as delineating boundaries and focusing around symbols. However, Robert Pinsky's "Newspaper," Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended-," and Reginald Shepherd's "Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear" illustrate how some poets after 9/11 …
Neither Black Nor White
The Hardening of Cement
The following paper analyzes changes in Soviet gender politics of the 1920s and 1930s. It starts with a general discussion of the relationship between Marxism and feminism, emphasizing issues especially relevant in the Soviet context. The second focus of the article is Fedor Gladkov's Cement, a novel originally written between 1922 and 1924 but reworked several times during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as the official policy on women was changing…
The Hardening of Cement
The following paper analyzes changes in Soviet gender politics of the 1920s and 1930s. It starts with a general discussion of the relationship between Marxism and feminism, emphasizing issues especially relevant in the Soviet context. The second focus of the article is Fedor Gladkov's Cement, a novel originally written between 1922 and 1924 but reworked several times during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as the official policy on women was changing…
Neither Black Nor White
A Highly Charged Pronoun
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the US establishment strove to reaffirm a vision of a unified American nation. The dominant rhetoric employed strategies typical of community building, such as delineating boundaries and focusing around symbols. However, Robert Pinsky's "Newspaper," Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended-," and Reginald Shepherd's "Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear" illustrate how some poets after 9/11 …
The “Czech-In” of Thomas More's Utopia
The aim of the article is to discuss two Czech translations of Thomas More's Utopia—one from 1950 by Bohumil Ryba, the other from 1911(?) by Jiří Foustka—and to survey debates that Utopia generated in the Czech context. Proceeding nonchronologically, I introduce several recently published critical studies about More, including Helena Tampierová's Thomas More: Státník a teolog (Thomas More: Statesman and Theologian) and Bohumil Svoboda's Thomas Mo…
Utopian Studies in the Czech and Slovak Republics
The article sketches activities in the field of utopian studies in the Czech Republic (with some references to the Slovak context). It begins as a brief venture into Czech utopian literature and literary criticism. Subsequently, it provides examples of research and activities carried out in other disciplines, in order to illustrate that utopia continues to preoccupy a multitude of Czech and Slovak writers, critics, filmmakers, and architects, amo…
Poetry in Utopian Prose
In ‘Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy’, Chantal Mouffe has argued that passions, rather than merely reason and interests, motivate people to act in politics and the only way to confront the mobilization of passions towards non-democratic ends by the Right is to mobilize passions towards democratic visions. Although poetry does not hold central stage in contemporary cultural production, it continues to mobilize various passions. There…
Reading Lyman Tower Sargent Along with William Morris
Ever since I encountered Lyman Tower Sargent's writing, he has signified to me a scholar whose lifelong dedication to utopian thought and literature has nurtured generations of students, critics, and practitioners of utopia. It is for this reason that my birthday wishes briefly place Lyman's work alongside that of William Morris—a writer, critic, designer, and activist whose inspiration was the past
Communism, Poetry
Although to the readers of Utopian Studies Darko Suvin remains perhaps best known for his criticism of science fiction, much of his recent writing has fallen into the category of Marxist political epistemology. Of note are In Leviathan’s Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time (2012), his analysis of former Yugoslavia in Splendour, Misery, and Potentialities: An X-ray of Socialist Yugoslavia (2017) as well as a number of shorter works on s…
“The Moving Horizon Of Classless Harmonies” In Darko Suvin’s Poetry
The article discusses selected poetry by Darko Suvin against the background of his theoretical writings about science fiction, utopia and poetry. It argues that Suvin’s poetry estranges the ideological view of the present and history as an inevitable reproduction of injustice and alienation. The focus is on several poems included in the collections The Long March: Notes on the Way 1981–1984 (1987) and Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Scienc…
Maps of Utopian Places
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