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Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain

Author : Miklós Péti
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787358534
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain written by Miklós Péti and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton’s work in Hungarian state socialism. The four decades between 1948 and 1989 saw a radical revision of previous critical and artistic positions and resulted in the emergence of some characteristically Eastern European responses to Milton’s works. Critical and artistic appraisals of Milton’s works in the communist era proved more controversial than receptions of other major Western authors: on the one hand, Milton’s participation in the Civil War earned him the title of a ‘revolutionary hero,’ on the other hand, religious aspects of his works were often disregarded and sometimes proactively suppressed. Ranging through all the genres of Milton’s oeuvre as well as the critical tradition, the book highlights these diverging responses and places them in the wider context of socialist cultural policy. In addition, the author presents the full Hungarian script of the 1970 theatrical performance of Milton’s Paradise Lost, the first of its kind since the work’s publication, including a parallel English translation, which enables a deeper reflection on Milton’s original theodicy and its possible interpretations in communist Hungary.

Paradise from Behind the Iron Curtain

Author : Miklos Peti
Publisher : Literature and Translation
ISBN 13 : 9781787358546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Paradise from Behind the Iron Curtain written by Miklos Peti and published by Literature and Translation. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

WORKERS' PARADISE LOST

Author : Eugene Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book WORKERS' PARADISE LOST written by Eugene Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

Author : Robert F. Ober
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1425778461
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain written by Robert F. Ober and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will discover the failures of Kissinger ́s policy of detente in the early 1970s, the mistaken departure from Carter ́s balanced policy toward China and the USSR, and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures"-Foreign Service Journal. "Ober ́s book recounts it all, along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks, Victor and Jennifer Louis, Nina and Ed Stevens, U.S.-Soviet summits, microwaves, bugged buildings and typewriters, fires, spy dust and spy mania . . . It ́s all there, the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90, a place so unlike today ́s walled air-conditioned, high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination."-Richard Gilbert, AmericanDiplomacy.org "You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ́80s. I don ́t know anyone who has done it better."-Donald Connery, former Time-Life correspondent, Moscow. "Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy, this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior"-George Feifer, "The Girl from Petrovka".

New Beginnings

Author : Antonina Duridanova
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1649521103
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book New Beginnings written by Antonina Duridanova and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burning with desire to share the value of freedom, Antonina takes you from her plight in communist Bulgaria to the free shores of America. Following unfortunate events of life in a totalitarian regime in Bulgaria, Antonina bids goodbye to her homeland and flees to the Western world. She provides true experiences and observations of what life is in a communist society-her family's lands and cattle being confiscated by the agricultural labor cooperatives; the censorship of the press and any literal, artistic, and scientific works from the West; religion being prohibited; and any deviation from the norm leading to detention in a labor camp. Her last crossing of the Bulgarian-Yugoslavian border almost costs Antonina her life and makes up her mind to never go back. She describes her life as an immigrant at the refugee camp in Traiskirchen, Austria, while waiting for an American visa. Antonina is ecstatic when the plane cruises over the Statue of Liberty and lands in the most amazing city in the world-New York. She describes how she could taste, smell, feel, and touch freedom as she gets off the plane, ready to embark on new adventures. Antonina gets educated and becomes a good specialist in taxation, working for the United States Treasury Department. Ultimately, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she is invited to go back to Bulgaria and fix a broken tax system as a representative of the United States government. Her work in the newly democratic society of Bulgaria paved the way for the country to become a member of NATO, escaping Soviet influence, and later being accepted in the family of the European Union. 20

The Wall

Author : Peter Sís
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780329643287
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Wall written by Peter Sís and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side-the Communist side-of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities-creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. By joining memory and history, Sis takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.--Publisher information.

Eva - A Novel by Carry van Bruggen

Author : Carry van Bruggen
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787353303
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Eva - A Novel by Carry van Bruggen written by Carry van Bruggen and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva, a 1927 novel by Dutch writer Carry van Bruggen, is an experiment in depicting a woman’s life from girlhood to marriage, and beyond, to sexual freedom and independence. At the same time, the narrative expresses Eva’s dawning sense of self and expanding subjectivity through a stream of consciousness told by a shifting narrator. Burdened all of her life by feelings of shame, at the end of the novel Eva overcomes this legacy of her upbringing and declares that it is ‘bodily desire that makes love acceptable’. Carry van Bruggen’s rich and varied language conveys Eva’s experience of the world. Powerful memories of an orthodox Jewish childhood pervade the novel with its fluid sense of time. As Eva puts it, ‘I let these years slip through my fingers like a stream of dry, glinting sand.’ Jane Fenoulhet makes this important modernist novel accessible to English readers for the first time. While it can be described as a becoming-woman of both Eva and her creator, so can the translation be seen as the translator’s own becoming, as Fenoulhet explains in the accompanying commentary, where she also describes the challenges of translating van Bruggen’s dynamic, intense narrative. For Fenoulhet, translation is more a matter of personal engagement with the novel than a matter of word choice and style. In this way, the emotional and intellectual life of the main character is re-enacted through translation.

Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain

Author : Malgorzata Fidelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019764340X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain written by Malgorzata Fidelis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixties occupy a prominent place in popular culture and scholarship as an era of global upheavals, including the Civil Rights Movement, de-colonization, radical social movements, student and youth protests, and the Vietnam War. This pioneering book explores the seemingly isolated Eastern bloc and a non-capitalist context, demonstrating the impact of those global upheavals on young people in Poland in the form of international youth culture, protest movements, and counterculture.

Escape from Paradise

Author : Alexander Shatravka
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781680531503
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Paradise written by Alexander Shatravka and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the memoir of a Soviet dissident who was sent to a psychiatric hospital and escaped to the West"--

Iron Curtain

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771007655
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Signal. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Central Europe. It set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system, Communism. Iron Curtain describes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created, and what daily life was like once they were complete. Applebaum draws on newly opened European archives and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devestating detail millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief, rendered worthless their every qualification, and took everything away they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Block is a lost civilization, once whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality and strange aethestics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of this book.

Workers' Paradise

Author : James Gillcrist
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546788874
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Workers' Paradise written by James Gillcrist and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two NASA rocket engineers cross over behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin to help a German rocket scientist escape.

Reflexive Translation Studies

Author : Silvia Kadiu
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 178735251X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Translation Studies written by Silvia Kadiu and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decades, translation studies have increasingly focused on the ethical dimension of translational activity, with an emphasis on reflexivity to assert the role of the researcher in highlighting issues of visibility, creativity and ethics. In Reflexive Translation Studies, Silvia Kadiu investigates the viability of theories that seek to empower translation by making visible its transformative dimension; for example, by championing the visibility of the translating subject, the translator’s right to creativity, the supremacy of human translation or an autonomous study of translation. Inspired by Derrida’s deconstructive thinking, Kadiu presents practical ways of challenging theories that argue reflexivity is the only way of developing an ethical translation. She questions the capacity of reflexivity to counteract the power relations at play in translation (between minor and dominant languages, for example) and problematises affirmative claims about (self-)knowledge by using translation itself as a process of critical reflection. In exploring the interaction between form and content, Reflexive Translation Studies promotes the need for an experimental, multi-sensory and intuitive practice, which invites students, scholars and practitioners alike to engage with theory productively and creatively through translation.

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 3176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Once Upon A Time... We Were All Communists

Author : Stefano Welisch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon A Time... We Were All Communists written by Stefano Welisch and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of WWII, a sort of "ethnical cleansing" took place in the southern region of Czechoslovakia, which was formerly part of Hungary. Following the directives of the new Communist Government, a vast number of Hungarian families were, in fact, forcibly relocated - or better said, deported - to Hungary, compelled to leave their houses and belongings to Slovak families that had been living beyond the border.Denes, the protagonist, born in 1947, narrates these events and about the dismembering of his family as he was told by his mother, who had experienced this ordeal in person. That does not really affect the boy, who lives serenely, studying and working with his father at the village Cooperative, believing that the Socialist society is the best possible, as he is been taught at school.Some doubt crept to his mind when he witnessed, albeit from a safe distance, the '56 uprising in Hungary and the bloody repression made by the Soviet troops. However, in the aftermath of the revolt, that did not affect Czechoslovakia in the least, and where it was completely censored, life went on peacefully and Denes, now become a "Pioneer of Socialism", as all his fellow students, continued to believe in the virtues of the Socialist society. He completes his studies and obtains the Electrician Diploma, being immediately hired by a local company. Unfortunately, his Socialist faith was shattered in the August of 1968, at the end of his military service that he was performing in Prague, when he saw the Soviet tanks aiming their guns towards the barracks where he was stationed. Was the Communist society so frail that it needed the Russian guns to survive?

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ania

Author : Lois Gayle Chance
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781977205247
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ania written by Lois Gayle Chance and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was young, Ania's parents never contradicted what her teachers taught in the communist government-controlled schools in Poland. It wasn't safe to do that. But as she grew up, the contradictions between what Ania had learned and what she heard and experienced mounted. She promised herself she'd someday live in the West where she would be free to choose her own destiny. Then an opportunity she never dreamed of was offered. Maybe things were changing. But maybe they weren't.

Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences

Author : Soledad Zárate
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787357104
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences written by Soledad Zárate and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of captioning and subtitling, a discipline that has evolved quickly in recent years. This guide is of a practical nature and contains examples and exercises at the end of each chapter. Some of the tasks stimulate reflection on the practice and reception, while others focus on particular captioning and SDH areas, such as paralinguistic features, music and sound effects. The requirements of d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences are analysed in detail and are accompanied by linguistic and technical considerations. These considerations, though shared with generic subtitling parameters, are discussed specifically with d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences in mind. The reader will become familiar with the characteristics of d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences, and the diversity – including cultural and linguistic differences – within this group of people. Based on first-hand experience in the field, the book also provides a step-by-step guide to making live performances accessible to d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences. As well as exploring all linguistic and technical matters related to the creation of captions, aspects related to the overall set up of the captioned performance are discussed. The guide will be valuable reading to students of audiovisual translation at undergraduate and postgraduate level, to professional subtitlers and captioners, and to any organisation or venue that engages with d/Deaf and hard of hearing people.