Eastern European category: 472 books

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,7, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Slavische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Majakovskij und der südslavische Avantgardismus, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: '?? ????? ?????? ?? ?????, ?? ??????. ?????????,...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,7, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Veranstaltung: Jiddische Literaturgeschichte , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 'Wer braucht schon Jiddisch in Amerika?' fragt sich der junge Schriftsteller in Isaac...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Slavische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Utopiemodelle in der Prosa Andrej Platonovs, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das 1932 niedergeschriebene und erst Jahrzehnte...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,3, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Slawistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Symbolfigur des Geschenkebringers zu Weihnachten ist in vielen verschiedenen Ländern weltweit vertreten. Während...

As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques...

Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media.

This collection of essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who—despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him—remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation...

Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal...

Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from Calcutta to London, Paulo Lemos Horta introduces the poets and scholars, pilgrims and charlatans who made largely unacknowledged contributions to Arabian Nights. Each version betrays the distinctive cultural milieu in which it was produced.

**Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, The Washington Post, and more  ** Israeli baking encompasses the influences of so many regions—Morocco, Yemen, Germany, and Georgia,...

How is Europe identified in narratives from its eastern periphery? This is the core question of this volume. Its chapters map narratives of Europe rooted in East Europe, as they circulate in phenomenological philosophy, news journalism, social movements, literary texts, visual art and popular music....

Some twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this account of post-communist Eastern Europe offers perspective beyond a nostalgic glance back at a unique moment in time. Written by a former expat, the focus is not on young Americans living it up in Prague or Budapest, but rather on the...

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different...

A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education,...