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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| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
2013.
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| ISBN: | 9781612492476 1612492479 9781612492483 1612492487 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Kundera, a European Novelist
- Chapter Two: The Legacy of Cervantes
- Chapter Three: Falling Out of History
- Chapter Four: Unmasking, Thought, and Analysis in the Post-Proustian Novel
- Chapter Five: The Thematic Structure of Kundera's Novels
- Chapter Six: The Sentimental and the Authentic Self
- Chapter Seven: The Dangers of Forgetting and Laughter
- Chapter Eight: Hedonism, Aestheticism, and Love as Modes of Authentic Sense Giving
- Chapter Nine: Lightness and Death
- Chapter Ten: The End of Modernity, the End of the Novel?
- Works Cited
- Index.