’...and Miraculously Post-Modern Became Ost-Modern’: How On or About 1910 and 1924 Karel Čapek Helped to Add and Strike off the ‘P’

Virginia Woolf and Karel Čapek produced direct responses to the British Empire Exhibition in the forms of – in Woolf’s case – a scathing essay entitled ‘Thunder at Wembley’ and – in Čapek’s case – a (P)OstModernist travelogue later published as part of ‘Letters from England’ translated into English...

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Main Author: Sriratana Verita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-12-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/auseur-2018-0008