Eastern European category: 472 books
Narrating Post/Communism
Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern European countries in the absence of the old...
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This volume brings together articles written by experts in the literary history of Central and Eastern European literatures. The overarching topic is the export of Socialist Realism into Europe after WWII, but the authors are interested not so much in highlighting the generalised, top-down mechanism...
In Gratitude for All the Gifts
Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In Gratitude for All the Gifts explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Magdalena...
American Representations of Post-Communism
Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television....
Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe
The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature....
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest...
Norman Manea
Aesthetics as East Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's aesthetics is seen also as an Eastern...
Automatic for the Masses
The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
At the end of the 1920s, the Modernist and avant-garde artistic programmes of the early Soviet Union were swept away by the rise of Stalinism and the dictates of Socialist Realism. Did this aesthetic transition also constitute a conceptual break, or were there unseen continuities between these two...
The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine
Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough...
by Anthony Wayman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The portrayal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War period was usually unflattering yet, following the death of Joseph Stalin, the Cold War might not have been quite so cold had a more balanced approach been adopted by the West as there was a genuine desire by the new administration for a better...
by Danusha Goska
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In this controversial study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the "Bieganski" stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are...
by Confucius
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Extrait : I.1. Le Maître dit : « Celui qui étudie pour appliquer au bon moment n’y trouve-t-il pas de la satisfaction ? Si des amis viennent de loin recevoir ses leçons, n’éprouve-t-il pas une grande joie ? S’il reste inconnu des hommes et n’en...
by Liisa Steinby
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist),...
Melchior Wankowicz
Poland’s Master of the Written Word
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work “The Battle of Monte Cassino”.
Acclaimed by his readers and critics alike, Melchior Wankowicz was...