Eastern European 2

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 m……続きを見る

Political Action in Vaclav Havel’s Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance, by Delia Popescu, examines resistance to oppression and individual responsibility in political action, all in the contex……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

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 Or……続きを見る

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relati……続きを見る

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, n……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zürau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of p……続きを見る

Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka’s novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick……続きを見る

This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulmen……続きを見る

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 wh……続きを見る

Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money t……続きを見る

The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about radical changes in the Russian literary world. With the state's relinquishment of control over literary production, writers acquired freedom of express……続きを見る

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 aestheti……続きを見る

The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fictio……続きを見る

Olga Bakich’s biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913–1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Per……続きを見る

In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic for……続きを見る

Essay aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,7, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Veranstaltung: Jiddische Literaturgeschichte , Sprache: Deut……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,7, Universität Bremen, Veranstaltung: Weltliteratur - ein neues altes Konzept?, Sprache: Deutsch, Abs……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres – poetry, p……続きを見る

Commençons notre chant par les Muses, habitantes du haut et divin Hélicon, qui, près d’une noire fontaine, devant l’autel du puissant fils de Cronos, mènent des dans……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,0, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Institut für Slawistik), Veranstaltung: Proseminar, Sprache: Deuts……続きを見る

Le bonheur, qui jadis inspirait mes accents,A fait place aux sombres alarmes ;C’est une Muse en deuil qui me dicte ces chants,Aujourd’hui trempés de mes larmes. Oui, les Muses, du moins, m’ont escor……続きを見る

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 crea……続きを見る

The Annotated**We represents the first fully annotated translation of Evgeny Zamiatin’s classic novel in English. Generally recognized as the first modern anti-utopian novel, Zamiatin’s We has puzzl……続きを見る

Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives ……続きを見る

Гэтыя літаратурныя эсэ пісаліся на працягу 10 гадоў. Вось як абазначыла іх крытык, выкладчыца, літаратуразнаўца М. Верціхоўская: “Структурна “Сечка” Андрэя Федарэнкі ўяўляе сабою мазаіку з перлаў. Г……続きを見る

Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritanceーoften impeded, disrupted inheritanceーto the novel’s rise to preeminence in Brit……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,7, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Veranstaltung: Dostojewskijs Roman: Verbrechen und Strafe……続きを見る