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Yiddish Literature Under Surveillance: The Case of Soviet Ukraine gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under Stalinist rule. It moves from the paradigm of writing almost exclusively about...

In the world’s so-called honor and face cultures, certain values and codes related to the protection of a family’s stainless reputation are deep-rooted. When they are violated by what is perceived as an immoral action, and the respective transgression...

Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman...

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 9781595340337Author Adam ZagajewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Trinity University Press,U.S.Publisher Trinity University Press,U.S.

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Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological...

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 aesthetic transition also constitute a conceptual break, or were...

Addressing the controversial history of an aesthetic - Realism - whose central purpose is the negotiation of social, political, and material realities, this book examines the ways in which it engages capital, social decorum and manners, the law and its...

Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman...

The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The papers' authors are scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Hungary, Germany, and New Zealand. In addition to the papers, the...

This book indicates that postmodern literature might reveal much in common with radical environmental movements. It also offers discussions for how an ecological postmodern literary theory can provide significant contributions to the paradigm shift in...

The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487584986Author Peter A StenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362094612Author G P DanilevskiiPage Count 148Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589636477Author Henryk K SienkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 653g

The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid's oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116158Format HardbackPage Count 347Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112307212Author Jeanne van der Eng-LiedmeierFormat HardbackPage Count 141Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 10g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112414811Author Jan van der EngFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

As the first of its kind, the present study of Ukrainian science fiction encompasses both the historical and thematic features of this genre. It contains a discussion of the representative and the most imaginative Ukrainian science fiction works...

The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357967075Author Leonid AndreyevPage Count 82Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880982Author Robin AizlewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410203960Author Frederick RiedlFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839542756Author Simon DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781881132Author Martyn RadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as "symptomatology"). The author seeks to derive a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361476747Author Graf Leo TolstoyPage Count 86Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410208033Author Turkish Information OfficeFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

The engaging figure of Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) comes to life in this collection of essays on his works and influences. So often considered as dangerously controversial in his lifetime, his literary output can now be appreciated as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362099754Author Romain RollandPage Count 126Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361472404Author Ivan Aleksandrovich GoncharovPage Count 280Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

The book is devoted to "contraband" literature from the USSR that was first published abroad over the Soviet period. The volume explores tamizdat as a literary practice and political institution from a variety of perspectives and situates it in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362099068Author Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevPage Count 166Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880906Author Robin AizlewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039110698Author Rosalind J. MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 840g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357962780Author Adam MickiewiczPage Count 24Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357963152Author Petr Bezruč Et AlPage Count 46Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions