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Book Synopsis Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature by : Robert B. Pynsent
Download or read book Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature written by Robert B. Pynsent and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brief histories of the oral traditions and literatures of Eastern Europe and biographies of leading figures. Languages include: Albanian; Armenian; Bulgarian; Byelorussian (Belarussian); Croatian; Czech; Estonian; Finnish; Georgian; Greek; Hungarian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Macedonian; Polish; Roumanian; Serbian; Slovak; Slovene; Sorbian (Wendish); Ukrainian; Yiddish.
Book Synopsis Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia by : Bruce Murphy
Download or read book Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia written by Bruce Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized as the outstanding reference on world literature, Benetʼs Readerʼs Encyclopedia is the one against which all others are measured, and is the single-most complete one-volume encyclopedia available for those with a serious interest in the subject. The entries explore all aspects of literature from around the world: biographies of poets and playwrights, novelists and belletrists; plot synopses and character sketches from important works; historical data on literary schools, movements, terms and awards; myths and legends; and more. Completely revised and updated, this fourth edition captures the diversity of todayʼs canon, with greater attention to African-American, Eastern, Middle Eastern, African, South American, Eastern European and womenʼs literature.
Book Synopsis The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by : Patt Leonard
Download or read book The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies written by Patt Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 1645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.
Download or read book The Czech Reader written by Jan Bažant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Artists, Writers, and Musicians by : Michel-Andre Bossy
Download or read book Artists, Writers, and Musicians written by Michel-Andre Bossy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scarifying portraits, Van Gogh's vigorous color, and Virginia Woolf's modern feminism: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 artists, writers, and musicians from around the world. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, showing how their luminous achievements influenced and guided contemporary and future generations, shaped the internal and external perceptions of their craft, and met the sensibilities of their audience.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe by : Richard C. Frucht
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe written by Richard C. Frucht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This encyclopedia explores the history of this complex region over the last two centuries." "Articles are included on countries and regions of Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and the countries that once made up Yugoslavia. European Russia is also included. These articles are both detailed and concise, offering the reader a brief but comprehensive introduction into a country's history during the last two centuries - a crucial time when Europe was swept by wars and convulsive political change that shaped the present." "The book covers not only the leading figures who shaped the region's political destiny, but also the major artists, writers, and other culturally significant individuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of these figures are known in the West, while others will be new to many readers." "An extensive map program enriches the text and helps the reader place a topic in geographic context. A bibliography at the end of each entry directs the reader to accessible sources for further reading or research on Eastern European history."--[book jacket]
Book Synopsis Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World by : Theo D’haen
Download or read book Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World written by Theo D’haen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the notions of “World Lingua Franca” and “World Literature” now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of languages and literatures, this is the central dilemma to be faced in a world that is increasingly globalized. In this book, the possible banes and benefits of globalization are illuminated from many different viewpoints by scholars based in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania. Among their more particular topics of discussion are: language spread, language hegemony, and language conservation; literary canons, literature and identity, and literary anthologies; and the bearing of the new communication technologies on languages and literatures alike. Throughout the book, however, the most frequently explored opposition is between languages or literatures perceived as “major” and others perceived as “minor”, two terms which are sometimes qualitative in connotation, sometimes quantitative, and sometimes both at once, depending on who is using them and with reference to what.
Download or read book Censorship written by Derek Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 2950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts by : Brian James Baer
Download or read book Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts written by Brian James Baer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents Eastern Europe and Russia as a distinctive translation zone, despite significant internal differences in language, religion and history. The persistence of large multilingual empires, which produced bilingual and even polyglot readers, the shared experience of “belated modernity” and the longstanding practice of repressive censorship produced an incredibly vibrant, profoundly politicized, and highly visible culture of translation throughout the region as a whole. The individual contributors to this volume examine diverse manifestations of this shared translation culture from the Romantic Age to the present day, revealing literary translation to be at times an embarrassing reminder of the region’s cultural marginalization and reliance on the West and at other times a mode of resistance and a metaphor for cultural supercession. This volume demonstrates the relevance of this region to the current scholarship on alternative translation traditions and exposes some of the Western assumptions that have left the region underrepresented in the field of Translation Studies.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Medieval Studies by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Studies written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 2849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Book Synopsis Twentieth-century Eastern European Writers by : Steven Serafin
Download or read book Twentieth-century Eastern European Writers written by Steven Serafin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bible in the Armenian Tradition by : Vrej Nersessian
Download or read book The Bible in the Armenian Tradition written by Vrej Nersessian and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible in the Armenian Tradition provides a concise historical account of the development of the Bible in Armenia and the illustrative traditions that are represented in surviving codices. The author focuses on the origins of the first translations of the Bible into Armenian in the fourth century, which inspired the Armenian alphabet itself. A range of beautiful Armenian Bible manuscripts from collections throughout the world are illustrated in full color and compared with western Bible illuminations. Later printed Armenian Bibles are also examined in detail, revealing fascinating examples of religious differences between the Armenian and the Catholic Christian traditions. This survey of Armenian Bible history is an important reference for biblical scholars and anyone with an interest in the history of Christianity.
Book Synopsis The Everyman Companion to East European Literature by : Robert B. Pynsent
Download or read book The Everyman Companion to East European Literature written by Robert B. Pynsent and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing and challenging book of Russian games for the mind.
Download or read book Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1091 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Andrew Lawrence Roberts Publisher :Central European University Press ISBN 13 :9789637326264 Total Pages :236 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (262 download)
Book Synopsis From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier ?vejk by : Andrew Lawrence Roberts
Download or read book From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier ?vejk written by Andrew Lawrence Roberts and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Svejk, this cultural dictionary is an intimate look at a people affectionately known for their storytelling humor (tlachani), suspicion of authority, and peaceful demeanor. Instead of the "greats" of Czech arts and letters that appear in standard histories or references, it describes such things as popular songs, movie stars, famous athletes, traditional dishes, and children's games that are second nature to every Czech." "In a country boasting the highest per capita consumption of beer (a bottle a day for every man woman and child), and where you once needed a handful of bony (coupons for imported goods) to buy a pair of Levi's, the Czech Republic today is a modern country of educated Europeans centered around Prague - one of the world's most beautiful capital cities. These contradictions all find a home in A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture." "From Brno to Zizkov, Jan Hus to Vaclav Havel, this wry and stimulating collection of over 600 entries marks the first attempt at sewing together the patchwork of Czech culture with the hope of showing what is hezky cesky (nicely Czech) to the world at large." "The dictionary is supplemented by over thirty lists on such topics as the most popular Czech song, novel, athlete, and food. It also includes other primary documents like historical calendars, school-leaving exams, and communist slogans."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands by : Judith A. Mabary
Download or read book Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands written by Judith A. Mabary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few are aware that there exists a type of melodrama that contains in its smaller forms the beauty of the sung ballad and, in the larger-scale works, the appeal of the spoken play. This category of melodrama is one that surfaced in many cultures but was perhaps never so enthusiastically cultivated as in the Czech lands. The melodrama varied greatly at the hands of its Czech advocates. While the works of Zdeněk Fibich and his contemporary Josef Bohuslav Foerster, a composer best known for his songs, remained closely bound to the text, those of conductor/composer Otakar Ostrčil reveal a stance that privileged the music and, given their creator’s orchestral experience, are more reminiscent of the symphonic poem. Fibich in his staged works and Josef Suk (composer/violinist and Dvořák’s son-in-law), in his incidental music reflect variously late nineteenth-century Romanticism, the influence of Wagner, and early manifestations of Impressionism. In its more recent guise, the principles of the staged melodrama reside quite comfortably in the film score. Judith A. Mabary’s important volume will be of interest not only to musicologists, but those working in Central and East European studies, voice studies, European theatre, and those studying music and nationalism.
Book Synopsis Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam by : Antón M. Pazos
Download or read book Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam written by Antón M. Pazos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrimages can be analysed as acts of conflict - such as the Crusades - or also as platforms for relationship building and rapprochement between religions. With a set of contributions from leading experts in the field, this book explores the concept of pilgrimage in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Some specific examples of pilgrimages that helped to strengthen links between different religions or civilisations are explored, ranging from Europe to Asia and from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Even though every pilgrimage that is investigated here has helped to link different worlds, the case studies show that this relationship rarely led to a better in inter-understanding. Nowadays, peaceful coexistence seems to be its greatest achievement.
