Eastern European category: 472 books
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably...
My Final Territory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as public intellectual he has received numerous awards including the Herder Prize, Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Goethe Medal.
My Final Territory is a collection...
Sincerity after Communism
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A compelling study of “new sincerity” as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a “new sincerity” in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily...
A World of Empires
The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Many people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to open trade relations with Japan in the early 1850s. Less well known is that on the heels of the Perry squadron followed a Russian expedition secretly on the same mission. Serving as secretary to the naval commander was...
For Humanity's Sake
The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cultural identity.
For...
Ukraine and Europe
Cultural Encounters and Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Ukraine and Europe challenges the popular perception of Ukraine as a country torn between Europe and the east. Twenty-two scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia explore the complexities of Ukraine’s relationship with Europe and its role the continent’s historical and cultural development.
Encompassing...
The Holocaust in Central European Literatures and Cultures
Problems of Poetization and Aestheticization
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been considered taboo, as only authentic testimony, documents, or at least 'unliterary', prosaic approaches were seen as appropriate. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems. This “intersectional”...
Das Erbe der Slawenapostel im 21. Jahrhundert / The Legacy of the Apostles of the Slavs in the 21st Century
Nationale und europaeische Perspektiven / National and European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Die Heiligen Kyrill und Method spielen durch ihre Bibelübersetzung und die Schaffung eines slawischen (glagolitischen) Alphabets eine herausragende Rolle für die religiöse, kulturelle und nationale Identität der Slawen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes aus Kultur-, Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft...
Kafka
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka...
Edge of Irony
Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been...
Inter-American Literary History
Six Critical Periods
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.
As a contribution to this field, this book brings together...
by Richard F. Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution...
Writing the Yugoslav Wars
Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational...