An auxiliary database of journals excerpted for individual bibliographic databases of the Czech Literary Bibliography.
This bibliography, prepared by František Knopp, covers the reception of Czech literature and literary events in periodicals and books published in exile during the period 1948–1989. A book version was published in 1996 with the title Czech Literature in Exile 1948–1989. The database is continuously updated.
This bibliography covers Czech fiction and articles on Czech literature published in online journals and on literary, cultural, and news servers. Founded in 2017 as part of the Czech Literary Internet project, it contains more than 15,000 records.
This bibliography contains records of fiction and articles on literature from samizdat periodicals. Founded in 2016, it contains over 10,000 records.
The Retrospective Bibliography covers the period 1770–1945 and contains more than 1.6 million records. It is accessible in the form of a digitised card file in the RETROBI system, which enables full-text search in OCR transcripts of individual cards.
This is a daily updated set of bibliographic databases with records on Czech literature, literary journalism, and literary science from the post-1945 period, containing more than 500,000 annotated records.
Consolidated searches on bibliographic databases of the research infrastructure of the Czech Literary Bibliography are made possible through the VuFind discovery system, including the bibliographies of Czech literary science (post-1945 period), literary exile, and samizdat, as well as records – at this time only a partial listing – from the Retrospective Bibliography of Czech Literature 1770–1945.
The Dictionary of Czech Writers of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (1982) is a term dictionary with 128 entries that present a selection of concepts (rather than an exhaustive bibliography) in order to highlight the basic substantive characteristics of particular authors and their impact on the development of literature. It is published as part of the Edition E series.
An expanded edition of the Dictionary of Literary Theory first published in 1984, edited by Štěpán Vlašín (available in book version in the Edition E series).
The Dictionary of Books of Poetry (1990), written by Miroslav Červenka, Vladimír Macura, Zdeněk Pešat, and Jaroslav Med, contains more than 130 entries on important works of Czech poetry from the Renaissance to 1945 (a book version is available in the Edition E series).
Created by Richard Müller and Pavel Šidák, and published in book form in 2012, this dictionary deals with contemporary literary theory with reference both to key concepts and to more narrowly defined terms. With 1018 entries, the dictionary covers all the essential approaches, directions, concepts, and schools that have shaped and continue to shape the form of contemporary literary theory.
An independent project of ICL researcher emeritus Aleš Zach that includes more than 300 entries, with a focus on small and regional publishers. This dictionary supplements the entries on the larger publishing houses covered by the print version of the Lexicon of Czech Literature, parts 1–4 (1985–2008).
On these pages you will find more than 1,500 entries by writers, literary critics and scholars, institutions, domestic and exile publishers, magazines and samizdat editions, and selected works of Czech prose. The online Dictionary of Post-1945 Czech Literature covers the period 1945–2000, and is managed by the Lexicography Department of the Institute of Czech Literature CAS.
The Lexicon of Czech Literature contains 3488 entries on Czech literary figures, institutions, and works of literature from its beginnings until 1945. A book version of the Lexicon was prepared by the ICL and published in four parts and seven volumes from 1985 to 2008. The most extensive dictionary work of Czech literary science is published electronically in Edition E.
The Digital Archive of Popular Literature presents more than 300 pulp magazines published during the first half of the 20th century, featuring short stories in the detective, adventure, and erotic fiction genre. Special attention is given to a series of Leon Clifton detective stories and the five different series in which these stories were published between 1906 and 1941.
An open-access archive of digital copies of Czech literary and cultural periodicals, as well as several newspapers from the 19th century to present.
The Edition E book series is comprised of 130 titles, mostly of older collected volumes, created by ICL scholars during the preceding sixty plus years, which continue to be of historical value. It includes proceedings, compendia, anthologies, manuals, dictionaries, editions of the writings of F. X. Šalda, Vladislav Vančura, etc.
The Thesaurus of Czech Meter deals in detail with Czech poetry at the beginning of the national revival, and holds nearly 8000 records. Unlike the Corpus of Czech Verse, texts in the Thesaurus are manually annotated and cover not only collections of poetry, but also magazine publications, poetry appearing in prose texts, etc. Data for the Thesaurus was created by Miroslav Červenka and Květa Sgallová, and its software environment is the work of Petr Plecháč.
The Corpus of Czech Verse is a lemmatised corpus of Czech poetry of the 19th and early 20th centuries, annotated according to phonetic, morphological, metric, and strophic criteria. It currently contains more than 75,000 poems / 2.5 million verses / 14 million words. The Corpus provides an alternative approach to researching texts in the Czech Electronic Library, as well as advanced tools for working with them (keyword analysis, rhyme database, etc.).
The Czech Electronic Library is comprised of more than 1700 poetry collections and books, and includes all published poetry in the Czech language from the end of the 18th century to the generation of authors first published in the years immediately preceding WWI. It offers tools for searching by theme, etc.
The Institute of Czech Literature CAS publishes its essential handbooks – History of Czech Literature, History of Czech Literature 1945–1989, Lexicon of Czech Literature, and In the General Interest – in the shared Kramerius system. To facilitate research we also offer downloadable PDF files for offline use.
An overview of awards, winners, and jurors, including literary prizes awarded in the Czech Republic as well as State Prizes for literature from the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Exhibitions for Download are designed mainly for schools, libraries, museums, and other cultural, educational, and memory institutions, offering thematic exhibitions to enrich teaching, and inspire readers and visitors. The series also provides teaching materials to accompany selected exhibitions.
More than 50 video recordings from lectures and events organised by the ICL from 2013 to 2017.
More than 270 video recordings from lectures and other events organised by the ICL since 2018.
A directory of catalogues for ICL libraries in Prague (covering Czech studies, theatrology, and collections of Western literature, as well as the former library of Umělecká beseda), and for copies of manuscripts and old prints from the ‘Old Czech Collection’ in Brno.
The CLO database collects data on the lives and career profiles of Czech literary figures, including writers in the fields of literary criticism, literary science, and journalism, and covering the history of Czech literature from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Data is collected and verified by archival research and excerpts from printed sources.
