Kniha zkoumá, jakou roli sehrály romány Henryho Fieldinga v průběhu všeobecné reformy veřejného vystupování, přičemž se blíže soustřeďuje na vývoj maskulinních vzorů, který je spojen s proměňujícím se chápáním zdvořilosti v letech 1742–1751. Publikace prezentuje analýzy Fieldingových obrazů maskulinity v souvislosti s dynamickými požadavky na ekonomické, politické a estetické standardy, a nabízí tak přínosný a komplexní pohled na jeho dílo v dobovém kontextu. ,This book explores the role of Henry Fielding’s novels in the context of the general project of reformation of manners and focuses on the development of the models of masculinity in his novels, which parallels the shifts in understanding of politeness in the years 1742–1751. It considers several viewpoints related to the changing economy, politics and aesthetic requirements of the time and uses them to analyse how Fielding's models of masculinity dealt with these complex perspectives.
There were three satirical comedies of Petar Kočić: Jazavac pred sudom, Sudanija i Niz drum in this essay. The point of this text is to show a real state and other context details very important for beginning and narration form, then the process of transformation from talking to a drama form. The special analytical segment is the interpretation of comic ways and art means in creating of comic masks, comical situations and comical language. All of them make united comical laughter with strong political, social and psychological means.
Since the beginning of the first satire, Juvenal has rejected the use of epic as being too exploitable and too inefficient to describe the monstrosity of the Roman vice. Yet the epic allusions crosses all satire. The paper deals with the idea that the functions of the epic elements in the first satire, often being erroneously restricted to a decorative (i.e. mocking) one, are in a stringent manner connected with Juvenal's choice of satire as genre. The paper shows how Juvenal transfers epic foundings on the ground of the satire and how he uses them to form his programmatic principles.