Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various disciplines with interests in American and British cultures, as well as articles with interdisciplinary perspectives on those cultures. We also devote a portion of the journal to outstanding student contributions. Since 2011, the journal has been enlisted in The National Index of Peer-reviewed Scholarly Periodicals published in the Czech Republic.


AMERICAN AND BRITISH STUDIES ANNUAL (ABSA) je odborný recenzovaný časopis založený v roce 2008 na Katedře anglistiky a amerikanistiky Fakulty filozofické Univerzity Pardubice. V současné době vychází jako ročenka zaměřená na široké spektrum témat amerických a britských kulturních a literárních studií. Cílem časopisu je vytvořit vědeckou a publikační základnu nejen v rámci České republiky, ale i mezinárodně. Časopis otiskuje dosud nepublikované odborné články v anglickém jazyce týkající se různých aspektů amerických a britských kulturních dějin, britské a americké literatury, výtvarného umění, hudby a dalších kulturních jevů a rovněž recenze nových knižních publikací v oboru.
Články:
Jiří Flajšar
Richard Hugo on Skye: Tragicomic Poetry of the Self


Stanislav Kolář
Relocated from an Elevator to a Cattle Car: Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Thane Rosenbaum’s Elijah Visible


Ivan Lacko
Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer and the Myth of Post-racial America


Roman Trušník
Coming Out in an Alternative World in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra’s Exile


Michaela Weiss
“Daddies” in Controversial Memoirs and Confessions: Laurie Sandell and Sylvia Plath


Olga Boinitska
A Bridge over the Waterland: Linking the Past with the Present in Graham Swift’s Ever After


Petr Chalupský
The Might and Glory of the City Celebrated – London’s Theatricality in Peter Ackroyd’s The Clerkenwell Tales


Janka Kaščáková
“The greatest of all garden parties” – the Great War, Memory and Myth in Katherine Mansfield’s Critical Writing 1910s

Ivona Mišterová
Space, Time and Poker: Symbolic and Actual Relocation in Dealer’s Choice


Petra Smažilová
Women Playwrights in the Suffrage Era


Alice Sukdolová
Crossing the Boundary: The Space of Hardy’s Wessex Novels


Alice Tihelková
Portrayal of the North-South Divide in the British Press


Zuzana Husárová, Bogumiła Suwara
Literature Coded for Marked Quick Response



Studentské příspěvky:
Ewelina Chiu
Hyperreality and Consumer Society—J.G Ballard’s Kingdom Come


Kristýna Pípalová
“Father, You’re Driving Me Mad”: Transmission of Trauma in Spiegelman’s Maus


Šárka Svitáková
Fear in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Monika Tekielová
Orthodox Judaism through the Eyes of Women Characters in Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel



Recenze:
Richard A. Betts
Review of Contemporary Literature in English: Selected Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts by Jana Javorčíková


Libuše Hornová Review of Non-Literary and Literary Text in Translation (based on an analysis of an EU institutional-legal text and novel excerpt “The Shack” by William P. Young) by Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová


Petra Smažilová
Beyond the Bounds: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Literary Theory (Review of Příspěvky k mezinárodní teorii literatury edited by JaroslavKovář)


Ladislav Vít
Violence as a Trope in Modernist Fiction (Review of Violence in Early Modernist Fiction: The Secret Agent, Tarr and Women in Love by Izabela Curyłło-Klag)