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Examines translations by canonical Romanian writers Lucian Blaga, Constantin Noica, and Emil Cioran, arguing that that their works reveal a new, "minor" mode of national identity.
Author : Sean Cotter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 158046436X
Examines translations by canonical Romanian writers Lucian Blaga, Constantin Noica, and Emil Cioran, arguing that that their works reveal a new, "minor" mode of national identity.
Author : Douglas ALLEN
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 6066971301
The time for what? The title of Mihaela Gligor’s edited collection is wonderfully flexible, as anything having to do with time should be. There is something not only boundless about time, but also raw and untamed. In its pure form, time would be too much for us to handle. We would be crushed by the sheer immensity of it, or else we would lose our minds trying to make sense of such unmediated time. Luckily, for the most part we don’t experience time in its pure form. Time comes to us already processed: shaped, engineered, tamed. The volume does fine justice to the notion that we experience time as already shaped by religion, politics, and culture. Whether its contributions cover religious or political figures, philosophers or poets, mystics or physicists, they show – sometimes explicitly, sometimes more discreetly – how difficult it is to deal with time in a pure, unmediated form. The contributors’ cultural, religious, and intellectual rooting inform the way think about time, just as about anything else. Which, far from being a weakness, is something to be recognized and celebrated. (Costică Brădățan, Texas Tech University, U.S.A.)
Author : Nicolae Mărgineanu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158046579X
"The story of psychologist Nicolae Mărgineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in detail the impact of Communist rule in Romania"--
Author : Yuliya Minkova
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1580469140
Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of heroes primarily because of their victimhood.
Author : Ilya Gerasimov
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1580469051
Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society
Author : Tomas Venclova
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580465862
Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.
Author : Rory Yeomans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1580465455
Offers a complex consideration of the relationship of mass terror and utopianism under the fascist government of wartime Croatia.
Author : Martin J. Blackwell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1580465587
Charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation and the returning Soviet rulers' efforts to retain political legitimacy.
Author : Andrzej Paczkowski
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1580465366
Examines the 1980 Solidarity revolution in Poland, the government's subsequent establishment of martial law in response, in 1981, and the eventual transition to democracy in 1989.
Author : Svetlana Vasileva-Karagʹozova
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1580465285
How do historical cataclysms affect the social conditioning of young people? How do individuals born in the same period come to form an identifiable "generation"? How do coming-of-age stories create a sense of community and generational identity? Coming of Age under Martial Law: The Initiation Novels of Poland's Last Communist Generation addresses these questions, examining a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy.BR> Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova argues that when cataclysms of any nature overlap with the sensitive period of maturation into adulthood, they disrupt the natural rhythm of society's self-renewal. In the case of the Polish '89ers, the generational clash with their predecessors did not produce the anticipated generational change in leadership, but a pathological role reversal: the elders refused to give up their leadership positions, while the young were stifled in their development and occupied marginal social spaces. This social imbalance is profoundlly reflected in the content and themes of the novels produced by this younger generation, as the author shows. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova is an assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas.