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An international collection of experts present and analyze selected manifestations of the millenium-inspired sense of the ending as well as the resulting artistic motifs of diseases and degeneration. The essays demonstrate the complexity of traumatic conditions in the realm of symbolic representations at the end of the century of totalitarianism. Among the topics covered is a discussion of the "moribund legacy of Polishness" in Joseph Conrad; vampirism as metaphor in Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles;" and Freudian constructions of sexual malaise in Henry James' "The Beast of the Jungle."
An international collection of experts present and analyze selected manifestations of the millenium-inspired sense of the ending as well as the resulting artistic motifs of diseases and degeneration. The essays demonstrate the complexity of traumatic conditions in the realm of symbolic representations at the end of the century of totalitarianism. Among the topics covered is a discussion of the "moribund legacy of Polishness" in Joseph Conrad; vampirism as metaphor in Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles;" and Freudian constructions of sexual malaise in Henry James' "The Beast of the Jungle."
Readers of American literary criticism and Jewish studies alike will appreciate this collection.
Conrad's relationship to Poland--the evolution of his attitude toward his homeland, the influence of Polish literature on his work, his reception by Polish audiences--and to Russian literature, particularly Dostoevsky and Turgenev, is discussed in fourteen papers written by scholars from the United States, Europe and beyond. The volume is critically diverse, containing elements of biography, psychoanalysis, film criticism, comparative literature, source criticism, and sociological and philosophical interpretation. The volume opens with an address by the prime minister of Poland, who emphasizes the European substance of Conrad's Polishness.
Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the flow of hybrid cultural messages. By focusing on the literary cultures of specific geographical locations, this volume intends to put into practice a new type of comparative study. Traditional comparative literary studies establish transnational comparisons and contrasts, but thereby reconfirm, however inadvertently, the very national borders they play down. This volume inverts the expansive momentum of comparative studies towards ever-broader regional, European, and world literary histories. While the theater of this volume is still the literary culture of East-Central Europe, the contributors focus on pinpointed local traditions and geographic nodal points. Their histories of Riga, Plovdiv, Timişoara or Budapest, of Transylvania or the Danube corridor – to take a few examples – reveal how each of these sites was during the last two-hundred years a home for a variety of foreign or ethnic literary traditions next to the one now dominant within the national borders. By foregrounding such non-national or hybrid traditions, this volume pleads for a diversification and pluralization of local and national histories. A genuine comparatist revival of literary history should involve the recognition that “treading on native grounds” means actually treading on grounds cultivated by diverse people.
"Types and stereotypes" is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the "History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe" approaches the region s literatures from five complementary angles, focusing on literature s participation in and reaction to key political events, literary periods and genres, the literatures of cities and sub-regions, literary institutions, and figures of representation. The main objective of the project is to challenge the self-enclosure of national literatures in traditional literary histories, to contextualize them in a regional perspective, and to recover individual works, writers, and minority literatures that national histories have marginalized or ignored. "Types and stereotypes" brings together articles that rethink the figures of National Poets, figurations of the Family, Women, Outlaws, and Others, as well as figures of Trauma and Mediation. As in the previous three volumes, the historical and imaginary figures discussed here constantly change and readjust to new political and social conditions. An Epilogue complements the basic history, focusing on the contradictory transformations of East-Central European literary cultures after 1989. This volume will be of interest to the region s literary historians, to students and teachers of comparative literature, to cultural historians, and to the general public interested in exploring the literatures of a rich and resourceful cultural region."
This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.