prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A.

Department of English and American Studies

Office: bldg. G/G.210
Gorkého 57/7
602 00 Brno

Phone:	+420 549 49 3639
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Field of study: Literature Comparatistics

"Not to Harmony or to Rationall Beauty": The Representation of Urban Space in E. E. Cummings' Complete Poems, 1904-1962 and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor. – graduate 2012
From Rhetoric to Aesthetics: Wit and Esprit in the English and French Theoretical Writings of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries – graduate 2011
Bending Facts Within and Beyond the Borders of Unreliable Narration in Selected Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch – graduate 2010
The Convergent Imagination: A Comparative Study of Intertextuality in Robert Clark's and Peter Ackroyd's Novels – graduate 2010

Postmodern Controversiality: The Gothic, the Magical, and the Feminist in Angela Carter's Literary Work – ongoing study
Neo-Victorian Depiction of Ostracized and Overlooked Characters – ongoing study
Female Metamorphoses as a Tool against Anthropocentrism: Ecocritical Reading of A. S. Byatt's Selected Short Stories – graduate 2023
On the Borders of Literature and Philosophy: Power Relationships in Iris Murdoch's Fiction. – graduate 2022

The Shift in the (Feminist) Discourse as Reflected in the Plays of the 1980s and 1990s by British Women Playwrights – graduate 2018
Alternative Semantics of Water: Watery Images in Derek Walcott's Poetry – graduate 2017
Shaping the Text, Shaping the Mind: Role of Transcultural Imagination on the Building of Spiritual Bridges of Solidarity across Boundaries of Difference – graduate 2016