Eastern European category: 472 books
Trasjanka und Suržyk gemischte weißrussisch-russische und ukrainisch-russische Rede
Sprachlicher Inzest in Weißrussland und der Ukraine?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Weißrussland und die Ukraine gelten als zweisprachig. Millionen von Menschen in beiden Ländern sprechen aber oft weder Weißrussisch bzw. Ukrainisch noch Russisch in Reinform. Vielmehr praktizieren sie eine gemischte weißrussisch-russische bzw. ukrainisch-russische Rede. Diese Mischungen aus genetisch...
The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry
Reference, Trauma, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
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 annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian...
by Cyprien Robert
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
“ Depuis le tragique dénouement de l’insurrection de Cracovie, la propagande russe a pris une extension formidable. Il n’est plus question que de ses progrès et de ses intrigues sur tous les points du monde slave. Partout cette propagande, se décorant elle-même du nom de panslavisme, promet...
Sienkiewiczs Bodies
Studies of Gender and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Sienkiewicz’s Bodies focuses on the work of the most popular Polish writer from the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. It discusses the surprising success of Sienkiewicz’s writing in relation to the dissection of optimistic illusion that takes place during a reading...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
An important question concerning literary studies is the circulation of literary works beyond their place of origin. Many other aspects must also be taken into consideration, such as the asymmetric positioning of authors and their work in international circulation, which is conditioned by the relative...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Qu’elle soit appelée meurtrière, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide élude les catégories usuelles : elle dérange l’ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiète les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (français et anglais)...
Durrell Re-read
Crossing the Liminal in Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Reading the twelve major novels of Lawrence Durrell, this study argues for their consideration as a single major project, an opus, marked by themes of liminality and betweenness. As major texts of mid-twentieth-century literature, repeatedly earning nominations for the Nobel Prize, Durrell’s work...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2002
From the earliest reviews of his poetry, readers were deeply divided on the merits of William Wordsworth's work. John Williams looks in detail at the major poems and discusses the critical issues that have dominated discussions of Wordsworth's compositions since they first began to appear in print...
Modern Slavery and Water Spirituality
A Critical Debate in Africa and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book contains close readings of contemporary literary texts and art work by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America. The readings reveal a critical debate that understands reflections on the slave trade and current migrations from Africa to Europe as continuity...
by Sheila A. Spector
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.
by Donna Tussing Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120 miles from Moscow. While he would live and travel in other places over the years, he always considered this family residence in the Russian heartland as his home. His lifelong quest for truth and meaning...
Political Action in Václav Havel's Thought
The Responsibility of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
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 context of Vaclav Havel’s political philosophy. The famous anti-communist dissident, acclaimed playwright,...
Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives about the rise of liberalism and the decline of sovereign power. It provides a new way to link the literature and philosophy of...
Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and the Ethics of Desire
Between Action and Contemplation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book focuses on the notion of desire in late-nineteenth-century Italy, and how this notion shapes the life and works of two of Italy’s most prominent authors at that time, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D’Annunzio. In the fin de siècle, the philosophical speculation on desire, inspired by...