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The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945
Harold B. Segel
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Description for The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945
Hardback. This guide to the literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945 includes an overview of literary themes and trends in historical context; a chronology of major political events; an A-Z section of articles on the most important and influential 700 writers; and an index. Series: Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. Num Pages: 512 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1407.
For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the twentieth century are extraordinarily rich, and in recent years many Eastern European novelists, poets, and playwrights have attracted wider attention and broader publication in the West. And yet no reference work, embracing all the countries of this region, including the former East Germany, has brought synoptic analysis to bear on these literatures-until now. Featuring lucid analyses of the works of Ivo Andric', Milan Kundera, ... Read more
For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the twentieth century are extraordinarily rich, and in recent years many Eastern European novelists, poets, and playwrights have attracted wider attention and broader publication in the West. And yet no reference work, embracing all the countries of this region, including the former East Germany, has brought synoptic analysis to bear on these literatures-until now. Featuring lucid analyses of the works of Ivo Andric', Milan Kundera, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231114042
SKU
V9780231114042
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About Harold B. Segel
Harold B. Segel is professor emeritus of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of over a dozen books, two of which-Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present and Turn-of the-Century Cabaret: Berlin, Munich, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Zurich-were published by Columbia University Press. Howard B. Segel is ... Read more
Reviews for The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945
A great new research tool... Segel lays out the striking complexity of the region's intellectual life and the lives and work of its writers. In his brilliant introduction, he contributes a magnificently comprehensive, 34-page review article on the region's intellectual life since the war and its history, politics, peoples, and cultures, as well as its literatures... Highly recommended. Library Journal ... Read more