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  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
    Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely known in his own ... Read more

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  • IGOR

    by Anthony Wayman ...
    The portrayal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War period was usually unflattering yet, following the death of Joseph Stalin, the Cold War might not have been quite so cold had a more balanced approach been adopted by the West as there was a genuine desire by the new administration for a better relationship.IGOR is an account of the experiences of a uniquely talented young Russian which the ... Read more

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  • The Gospel of Matthew

    A Hypertextual Commentary

    by Bartosz Adamczewski ...
    Series Book 16 - European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions
    This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of Luke, but also, in a strictly sequential way, of the Acts of the Apostles. This strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • The Narcissus Theme from «Fin de Siècle» to Psychoanalysis

    Crisis of the Modern Self

    by Niclas Johansson ...
    Series Book 5 - Nordeuropaeische Arbeiten zur Literatur, Sprache und Kultur / Northern European Studies in Literature, Language and Culture
    The story of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own image in a spring, has fascinated writers and thinkers ever since Ovid first gave poetical form to the myth in his Metamorphoses. This study systematically investigates the elaborations of the theme at the turn of the century around 1900. It argues that a sense of crisis in the modern foundation of selfhood explains the heightened interest in ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture

    by Danusha Goska ...
    In this controversial study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the "Bieganski" stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. Their special hatefulness is epitomized by their Polish anti-Semitism. Bieganski discovers this stereotype ... Read more

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  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    by Ryszard Nycz ...
    Translated by Tul’si Bhambry ...
    Series Book 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their ... Read more

    $52.89 USD

  • Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge

    State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine

    by Mayhill Fowler ...
    In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the ... Read more

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  • Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin

    Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses

    Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Natalia Jonsson-Skradol ...
    Series series Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
    This volume brings together articles written by experts in the literary history of Central and Eastern European literatures. The overarching topic is the export of Socialist Realism into Europe after WWII, but the authors are interested not so much in highlighting the generalised, top-down mechanism of the project, as in the particularities of each specific national and cultural context. Research ... Read more

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  • Valerii Pereleshin

    The Life of a Silkworm

    by Olga Bakich ...
    Olga Bakich’s biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913–1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Pereleshin lived for thirty years in China and for almost forty years in Brazil. Multilingual, he wrote poetry in Russian and in Portuguese and translated Chinese and Brazilian poetry into Russian and ... Read more

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  • Simply Tolstoy

    by Donna Tussing Orwin ...
    Series Book 9 - Great Lives
    “This is a little gem, the best introduction to Tolstoy I have ever encountered, and it is more than that. The most accomplished scholar will find important new insights, the sort that one immediately recognizes as both true and profound. Orwin brings Tolstoy to life as a person and as a writer, and she also shows beautifully how the two are linked. The discussions of Tolstoy's views on psychology ... Read more

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  • Russian Literature, 1995-2002

    On the Threshold of a New Millennium

    by Norman Shneidman ...
    Series series Heritage
    Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized between an increasingly prosperous minority and a very poor majority. This divide is also mirrored ... Read more

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