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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 only...

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...

The collection is comprised of twelve scholarly essays written by leading Chekhov specialists from around the world, each analysing an interpretation of Chekhov by one of three Russian thinkers of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov,...

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...

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...

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 recent...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410015Author Robert SchindelFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 436g

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern...

Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally. However, his reception in Czechoslovakia, launched by the Liblice conference in 1963, has been conflicted. While rescuing Kafka from years of censorship and neglect,...

For nearly half a century East-Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its "civilizing" mission. Despite its colonial status, this part of the world has escaped the attention of most postcolonial critics and remains a...

Two languages-German and Romanian-inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Muller. Describing her writing as "autofictional," Muller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on...

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a...

The author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevsky's Characters draws on Dostoevsky's universe to illuminate psychoanalytic theory and practice. Using Dostoevsky's characters as case studies, the author discusses the various psychoanalytic...

1. The study places the three most important Bosnian writers of the twentieth century incisively and firmly next to three titans of European literature.2. Drawing upon comparative literature's ethos, the study resists the ethnic autarkies embedded in the...

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...