Eastern European category: 472 books
Migrant Cartographies
New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way...
The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Italy
Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the 1880s and 1890s, materialism in art was counterbalanced by attention to the subjective individual experience, expressed in the new modes inaugurated by Symbolism, Decadence and Aestheticism. In particular, Decadent artists and writers inspired the lasting name of an age fascinated by the contemplation...
by Lubomir Dolezel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
In this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature. He applies the methods of structural linguistics and literary studies as developed by the Prague Linguistic School, and...
Verga innovatore / Innovative Verga
Lopera caleidoscopica di Giovanni Verga in chiave iconica, sinergica e transculturale / The kaleidoscopic work of Giovanni Verga in iconic, synergetic and transcultural terms
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Questa antologia internazionale focalizza l’opera letteraria di Giovanni Verga puntando sul suo potenziale «caleidoscopico» e transculturale. Le innovazioni del grande Verista siciliano, il respiro europeo del suo pensiero, le numerose sinergie estetiche e la sensibilità della sua denuncia sociale...
Kafka
The Torment of Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This is a study of Kafka’s tragic vision of life, his profoundly disturbing awareness of man’s utter loneliness in a pitiless universe, and his artistry in effecting a strange intimate fusion between symbolism and realism—between anguished poetic narration and the terrifying reality of an absurd...
by Svetlana Boym
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even after The Future of Nostalgia carried her fame...
The Hedgehog and the Fox
An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War...
Nonrequired Reading
Prose Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming...
by James Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond...
Livresse entre le bien et le mal
De lAntiquité à nos jours
Language: French
Release Date: December 19, 2017
L’ambivalence de la relation à l’ivresse est au cœur de l’histoire. Depuis l’Antiquité, des hommes et des femmes s’enivrent en s’appuyant sur des arguments complaisants et en laissant de côté les arguments moralisateurs.
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de mieux comprendre cette...
by Catriona Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will...
by Ritchie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...' So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his...
Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals
Destruction in this Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals...
Modernism in Kyiv
Jubilant Experimentation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
The study of modernism has been largely focused on Western cultural centres such as Paris, Vienna, London, and New York. Extravagantly illustrated with over 300 photos and reproductions, Modernism in Kyiv demonstrates that the Ukrainian capital was a major centre of performing and visual arts as well...