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SUMMARY: From Tahiti to China: Czech Literature Seizing the World
DESCRIPTION: How much influence can literature of one small land-locked cou
 ntry wield outside its borders?
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>How much influence can literature of one s
 mall land-locked country wield outside its borders? Surprisingly\, a lot\, 
 as evidenced by the various linguistic and cultural phenomena that had occu
 rred around the world because of Czech fiction. This online talk is part of
  the Slavic Lecture Series.</p><p>Join lecture via Zoom here: <a href="http
 s://ubc.zoom.us/j/69932415680?pwd=RmZHOXNvNWo4eEV3akNQNzh6TjJjQT09">https:/
 /ubc.zoom.us/j/69932415680?pwd=RmZHOXNvNWo4eEV3akNQNzh6TjJjQT09</a></p><p><
 strong>Title: </strong>"From Tahiti to China: Czech Literature Seizing the 
 World"</p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> A quick glance at several twentieth
  century Czech authors will reveal\, for example\, how adventure novels bro
 ught about the opening of the first bookstore as well as the first driving 
 school in Tahiti\, what are the fictional origins of the universally known 
 word robot\, what narrative prompted the fashionable study of Czech languag
 e in Korea\, and why the word kitsch arrived in China via the pages of a fa
 mous novel. The domestic benefits of this literary success will also be dis
 cussed.</p><p><strong><img class="wp-image-19825 size-thumbnail alignleft" 
 src="https://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2022/11/PHOTO
 -202-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Bio: </strong>Hana Pich
 ova\, Professor of Slavic Language and Literatures at the University of Nor
 th Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, was born in Czechoslovakia. When she was eighte
 en\, her family emigrated to the United States of America. Following her gr
 aduate studies at the University of Wisconsin\, she taught in the Departmen
 t of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas and Univer
 sity of North Carolina. Her academic interests deal with twentieth century 
 Czech literature and culture\, culminating in two books <i>The Art of Memor
 y in Exile</i> and <i>The Case of the Missing Statue</i>.</p>
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