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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

"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

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,...

A postcolonial study of Polish literature from Romanticism to the twenty-first century 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bozena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects-pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils-tangible vestiges of a once-lived...

Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed in their attempts to transform the Eastern European...

Nabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career-from the 1920s to the 1940s-in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie...

Joseph Conrad's Authorial Self is organized around the category of the author with some illuminating aspects of Conrad's Polishness as the major area of consideration. It starts with a theoretical treatment of Conrad's authorship, continues through a...

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A number of European authors who survived concentration camps, ghettos, and besieged cities in the middle of the twentieth century chose not to write straightforward memoirs or testimonials but instead to fictionalize their experiences. By manipulating...

Literatures of small nations represent a minuscule portion of the global literary marketplace, where books written in English outnumber translated works. The struggle for visibility in relation to dominant languages and cultures is not new in Slovakia, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765109458Author Dr. Karen von KunesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA