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Born into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown by writing in English, often about nautical adventures in...

This volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and...

This limited edition contains the critical texts of eight long oral epics from four bards of northern Bosnia, the northern most predominantly Muslim district in Europe. Sung with the accompaniment of the picked tambura rather than the bowed gusle that is...

In this collection, French intellectuals and scholars comment on the relationship between British novelist Joseph Conrad's work and French culture and criticism. The book presents readings of Conrad's major texts by several generations of critics, such...

Why did Joseph Conrad avoid using English, except when it came to the arduous task of writing fiction? And how do we account for his extensive "borrowing" from French writers? This psycholinguistic examination delves into the creative mind of...

The twentieth volume in the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad's and Ivan Turgenev's output and focuses on their outlooks and ideas concerning art,...

Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature--the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others--has, in fact, just recently become widely available to readers. Long published...

The Subcarpathian Rusyns are an east Slavic people who live along the southern slopes of the Carpathian mountains where the borders of Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland meet. Through centuries of oppression under the Austro-Hungarian and Soviet empires,...

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789949327478Author Ljubov KisseljovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University of Tartu PressPublisher University of Tartu PressWeight(grams) 367g

Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality offers an original approach to Conrad's work rooted in linguistics and psychoanalytic theory. Claude Maisonnat provides fresh insight into the poetics of textuality by introducing the concept of textual voice,...

Joseph Conrad’s Texts and Intertexts. In Honour of Professor Wiesław Krajka is a collection of studies that examine various aspects of Joseph Conrad’s literary art, with the organizing ideas being textuality and intertextuality, both broadly understood...

This monograph brings together studies that deal with various aspects of Joseph Conrad's literary art. The core concept organizing its structure is intertextuality. Intertextual relationships are seen in terms of either affinities/points of contact and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857284044Author Craig BrandistFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

First published in 1986, Soviet Fiction since Stalin presents a comprehensive overview of the literature of the post Stalin period in the Soviet Union. The rapid advances in science and technology in these years are reflected in the themes of many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857285744Author Olga TabachnikovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318415Author Olga TabachnikovaFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318408Author Craig BrandistFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

This book outlines a fresh and coherent framework for the apprehension of Akhmatova's oeuvre in its totality, seeing her as a poet who moves beyond modernism in her later period. The appeal to postmodernism, which is in itself innovatory with regard to...

Using Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study," this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in...

Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives addresses the growing popularity of philo-Semitic violence in Poland between the 2000 revelation of Polish participation in the Holocaust and the 2015 authoritarian turn. Janicka and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359437Author Maria RubinsFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule. What is the legacy of this period for cultural attitudes to the environment and the contemporary battle to confront climate change? This is the first in-depth study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929497334Author Helen ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929497327Author Helen ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 370g

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...

The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses instead to focus on the aesthetics underlying Pasternak's...

Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds symbol to be an essentially religious reality for...

Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds symbol to be an essentially religious reality for...

An illuminating new study of modern Polish verse in performance, offering a major reassessment of the roles of poets and poetry in twentieth-century Polish culture. What's in a voice? Why record oneself reading a poem that also exists on paper? In...

In Der Nister's Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich (1884-1950). Krutikov follows Der Nister's painful but ultimately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825365486Author Urs HeftrichFormat HardbackPage Count 547Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359420Author Maria RubinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

"The Translator's Doubts" singles out translation as a way of talking about literary history and theory, philosophy, and interpretation, with the work of Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study." It is hard to separate Nabokov from the...

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...

The Political Novel in the South Slavic Intercultural Context investigates the problem of the genre of the most elusive literary genre: the political novel, and the presence of “political” in novels of South Slavic literature, primarily in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447106634Author Stefan Michael NewerklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5670g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447109062Author Andrea Meyer-FraatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447108928Author Fedor B PoljakovFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 6250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832537524Author Stephan KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH