Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Karel Čapek: Selected Bibliography & Web Links

Karel Čapek: Selected Bibliography & Web Links

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

Books

By Čapek

Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Čapek Reader, edited and with an introduction by Peter Kussi; foreword by Arthur Miller. North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 1990.

About Čapek

Bradbrook, Bohuslava R. Karel Čapek: In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance, and Trust. Brighton [Eng.]: Sussex Academic Press ; Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press c/o International Specialized Book Services, 1998.

Harkins, William. Karel Čapek. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.

Klíma, Ivan. Karel Čapek: Life and Work; translated from the Czech by Norma Comrada. North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 2002.

On Karel Čapek: A Michigan Slavic Colloquium; edited by Michael Makin and Jindřich Toman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1992.

Part One
Ivan Klíma
         Scenes from Kora Nanda         3
Part Two
Lubomír Doležel.
         Karel Čapek—a Modern Storyteller   15
Herbert Eagle
         Čapek and Zamiatin—Versions of Dystopia     29
William Harkins
         Čapek’s Early Work Revisited     43
Ladislav Matĕjka
         The Registers of Čapek’s Czech         51
Jan Rubeš
         Constructing Modernity—Čapek’s Translations of French Poetry        59
Peter Steiner
         The Neglected Collection—Čapek’s Apocryphal Stories as Allegory 65
Jindřich Toman
         Karel Čapek, Karl Kraus, and the Theory of the Phrase        87
Robert Wechsler
         Karel Čapek in America    109
Part Three
Margo Apostolos
         Real Robots in R.U.R.—A Choreographer’s Notes    129

Ort, Thomas. Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and His Generation, 1911-1938. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Porter, Robert. An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Czech Fiction: Comedies of Defiance. Brighton; Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2001. See “Karel Čapek: Whose point of view?”, pp. 27-51.

Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. See (final) Chapter 12: Karel Čapek, Or the Aliens Amongst Us, pp. 270-283.

Steiner, Peter. The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. See esp. chapter 2: “Radical Liberalism: Apocryphal Stories by Karel Čapek,” pp. 69-93.

Swirski, Peter. From Lowbrow to Nobrow. Montreal; Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. See Part II: Nowbrow: Varieties of Artertainment; Chapter 4: Karel Čapek and the Politics of Memory; pp. 95-120, 187-188.

Dissertations

Hester, Jordan Thacker. Karel Čapek, Author of the Apocryphal Tales: A Study of Genre and the Čapekian. Masters thesis, English, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2008.

Articles

Haman, Ales; Trensky, Paul I.. “Man Against the Absolute: The Art of Karel Čapek,” Slavic and East European Journal 11, (1967): 168-184. JSTOR.

Sparks, Julie A. “Shaw for the Utopians, Čapek for the Anti-Utopians,” Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 17, (1997): 165-183. JSTOR.

Science Fiction Studies

Čapek, Karel. The Author of the Robots Defends Himself, #68 (Volume 23, Part 1), March 1996.

Čapek, Karel. Preface to Bílá Nemoc; translated by Renata Flint, introduced by Robert M. Philmus, #83 (Volume 28, Part 1), March 2001.

Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr. “Twenty-Two Answers and Two Postscripts: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem,” translated by Marek Lugowski, #40 (Volume 13, Part 3), November 1986.

Kinyon, Kamila. “The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek’s R.U.R.,” #79 (Volume 26, Part 3), November 1999.

Maslen, Elizabeth. “Proper Words in Proper Places: The Challenge of Capek’s War with the Newts,” #41 (Volume 14, Part 1), March 1987.

Philmus, Robert M. “Matters of Translation: Karel Čapek and Paul Selver,” #83 (Volume 28, Part 1, March 2001: 7-32. Abstract.

Philmus, Robert M. “More Timely Than Ever” [review of: Karel Čapek, The Absolute at Large, intro. Stephen Baxter; Bison Frontiers of Imagination; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005], #100 (Volume 33, Part 3), November, 2006.

The Absolute at Large

Čapek, Karel. The Absolute at Large. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1927. viii, 294 pp. Reprint: New York; London: Garland Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. (The Garland Library of Science Fiction) (Original Czech publication, 1922) Original edition online.

Čapek translations by David Wyllie: includes The Absolute at Large (2012)

The Absolute at Large - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Absolute at Large (1927) by Karel Capek: reviews: UNZ

Karel Čapek Energies: The Absolute at Large as Proto-Cli-Fi Literature (Episode 7: Retrospective futures), by Andy Hageman, Deletion, October 6, 2014

The Absolute at Large, by Karel Capek, Reviewed by Stuart Aken, 18 May 2012

Lit Novelist Confesses Nerd Love For Sci Fi Classic: Cara Hoffman, All Things Considered, April 20, 2011