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Literature and politics in Eastern Europe : selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990
- Title
- Literature and politics in Eastern Europe : selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 / edited by Celia Hawkesworth.
- Author
- World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies (4th : 1990 : Harrogate, England)
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
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- Additional Authors
- Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942-
- Description
- xi, 169 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Literature and politics have been closely related in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the centuries of occupation and fragmentation of its various states. Concentrating particularly on the twentieth century and the position of writers under totalitarian regimes, the essays in this volume offer insights into aspects of many of the literatures of the region: Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian and Yugoslav. There are also references to some earlier topics: an eighteenth-century Polish literary response to the launching of the first balloon and a reflection of the Germanisation of Ukrainian culture, thus giving the book's main focus a sense of historical perspective. Several of the essays consider questions of dissent and exile from the several prevailing communist ideologies in the period 1945-89. This volume is itself an historical document as the essays of which it consists were originally presented at the first international conference of Slavists to be held since the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Congresses (form)
- Note
- "Selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990".
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / Celia Hawkesworth -- 2. Reception: An Authorial Experience / Josef Skvorecky -- 3. Literature as Criticism of Ideology in Current Serbian Culture / Predrag Palavestra -- 4. Politics -- Challenge and Temptation in Contemporary Serbian Literature / Dobrica Cosic -- 5. Slawomir Mrozek: Exile and the Loss of Mission / Regina Grol-Prokopczyk -- 6. Postmodernism and its Histories: Representations of the Past in Contemporary Hungarian Fiction / Richard Aczel -- 7. Recent Prose of Hana Ponicka and Ol'ga Feldekova: Dissident Autobiography and Aesopian Fiction / Norma L. Rudinsky -- 8. Milan Kundera's Wisdom of Uncertainty and Other Categorical Imperatives: The Experience of the Contemporary Romanian Novel / Michael H. Impey -- 9. The Dilemmas of the Modern Bulgarian Woman in Blaga Dimitrova's Novel Litze / Elka Agoston-Nikolova -- 10. Silk, Scissors, Garden, Ashes: the Autobiographical Writings of Irena Vrkljan and Danilo Kis / Celia Hawkesworth -- 11. Kazimiera Illakowiczowna: The Poet as Witness of History and of Double National Allegiance / Danuta Zamojska-Hutchins -- 12. Ukrainian Avant-garde Prose in the 1920s / Myroslav Shkandrij -- 13. Oppressed and Enlightened: Ukrainians under Austro-Hungarian Rule in Karl Emil Franzos' Historical Novel Kampf uns Recht / Lydia Tarnavsky -- 14. F.D. Kniaznin and The Polish Balloon / Nina Taylor -- 15. Karel Capek and English Writers / Bohunka R. Bradbrook.
- ISBN
- 0312079915
- 9780312079918
- 0333553241
- 9780333553244
- LCCN
- 92002749
- OCLC
- ocm25282771
- 25282771
- SCSB-1962354
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library