Eastern European category: 472 books
by Peter Hyland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the Sonnets; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare. Peter Hyland locates Shakespeare...
Extremos
Visiones de lo extremo en literatura, historia, música, arte, cine y lingueística en España y Austria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2017
El siglo XX fue, según Eric Hobsbawm, la "época de los extremos": guerras, genocidios, opciones políticas extremas y la llegada al poder de regímenes autoritarios, la amenaza nuclear, la sobreexplotación de los recursos naturales, violencia, pobreza y hambrunas extremas de un lado,...
by Dr. Meghan Vicks
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon...
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence,...
Framing the Polish Home
Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written in Poland or abroad. Framing the Polish Home...
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars
edited by Ondrej Sládek and Michael Heim
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular...
Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race
Black Female Tricksters Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with tricksters who throw dust in...
Los agravios de la letra
La letra colonial y la formación de la alteridad afro-andina [Siglos XVI, XVII y XIX]
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Este estudio explora la representación de la población negra en tres diferentes textos correspondientes a Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia (Alto Perú a finales del periodo colonial). La naturaleza heterogénea de estos textos constituye la base y dirección de este trabajo; esta diversidad permite observar...
Textos de los «Lieder» de Richard Strauss
Enfoque poético-musical
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Esta obra es una verdadera composición artística, que cuida el ritmo del lenguaje con un léxico erudito. Y si bien parte de un examen científico minucioso, el mundo interior y creativo de la autora traduce su prosa con dinámica ágil y atractivos ejemplos poético-musicales.
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by Ryszard Nycz
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from...
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
In Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our most important ministries....
by Regina Bochenek-Franczakowa
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2018
La réception de George Sand en Pologne est considérée dans ces études par le biais des « présences » de la romancière dans la culture du pays : écrivaine célèbre, femme émancipée et maîtresse de Chopin. C’est au XIXe siècle que l’admiration pour l’œuvre sandienne se manifestait...
Cold War Literature
Writing the Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted...
Death of a Holy Land
Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of Orly Castel-Bloom, Michal Govrin, Zeruya Shalev, and Yoram Kaniuk, the book argues for a new understanding...