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This paper deals with the conception of the Czech literary canon in English-speaking countries, which then functions as a profile of Czech literature intended for foreign specialists in Czech Studies and the general public. The article gives a brief overview of three stages of making the most important values of Czech literature accessible for English-speaking readers as they were presented by Martin Pilar, a Czech literary historian and theorist. The first stage beginning in the 1940s, transferred abroad the petr...

In this paper the attention is focalized on the iconology created by Giorgio Manganelli in his essayistic writings, when they are structured as a combination of a tale and its correspective visual material, in his interest for pictorial imagery since the prehistoricity to contemporaneity, approached not only as a complement, but as a nucleus from which sprang his literary discourse. It is emphasized how visual images convey social aspects of author's thought as a prolific writer in Italian culture and in a global ...

this article shows how in the last two decades UNESCO had started to recognize the nonprofit international association the Fédération Internationale des éhicules Anciens (FIVA) historical cars as part of its world heritage initiative. FIVA was founded in 1966 and its aim is the preservation, restoration, use and culture of mechanically propelled road vehicles. In 2017, FIVA was recognised by UNESCO as the body for Historical Vehicles and related Culture. The 1895 Carl Benz patent "car with internal combustion engi...