Kundera and modernity /
"While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
2013.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781612492476 1612492479 9781612492483 1612492487 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analyzing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinized in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | Comparative cultural studies.
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| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |