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A study of the emerging cultural model of "cosmodernism"
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
5. Actors and contexts
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, howev.
The cultural politics of commemorating war.
Francophone Literature as World Literature examines French-language works from a range of global traditions and shows how these literary practices draw individuals, communities, and their cultures and idioms into a planetary web of tension and cross-fertilization. The Francophone corpus under scrutiny here comes about in the evolving, markedly relational context provided by these processes and their developments during and after the French empire. The 15 chapters of this collection delve into key aspects, moments, and sites of the literature flourishing throughout the francosphere after World War II and especially since the 1980s, from the French Hexagon to the Caribbean and India, and from Québec to the Maghreb and Romania. Understood and practiced as World Literature, Francophone literature claims--with particular force in the wake of the littérature-monde debate--its place in a more democratic world republic of letters, where writers, critics, publishers, and audiences are no longer beholden to traditional centers of cultural authority.
This volume focuses on the issue of identity within the context of the radical shift that took place in Romania during the late 1940s and early 1950s, as a result of the process of Sovietisation, or “cultural colonisation” (a concept analysed in particular detail in this book). It adopts a novel approach to this theme, by studying the issue of identity within the context of the first decade of the Romanian communist regime, with the help of a series of concepts and theories belonging to the disciplines of Western cultural, media and gender studies, as well as those relating to colonialism and imperialism. Of particular interest to this volume is the use of the press as an essential instr...
Aproximaţii este o carte de critică literară în care autorul a înregistrat cele mai importante apariţii din literatura română a ultimilor ani, în studii critice, cronici literare şi eseuri care comentează cărţi, scriitori sau tendinţe ale momentului actual. Structurată în trei cicluri, cartea lui Iulian Boldea se remarcă prin precizia formulărilor, obiectivitatea enunţurilor şi prin metodele critice adecvate valorificate. Tototdată, ea conţine numeroase puncte de vedere, perspective şi ipoteze critice meritorii, după cum vădeşte o extremă atenţie la nuanţele textului, la relieful său subliminal. Demersul critic al autorului se caracterizează, înainte de toate, prin rigoarea aserţiunilor şi relevanţa demonstraţiei. Între autorii comentaţi în această carte, pot fi amintiţi Virgil Nemoianu, Al. Paleologu, Nicolae Manolescu, Gabriel Liiceanu, Adrian Marino, Ion Vartic, Marta Petreu, Mircea Muthu, Dan Culcer, Ştefan Borbely, Horia Bădescu, Vasile Dan, Eugen Dorcescu, Ion Zubascu ş.a.
„Volumul acesta este unul pasionant, unul care se citește adeseori ca un roman ideatic și evenimențial al preistoriei și al istoriei generației optzeciste, cu toate tribulațiile pe care le-a avut aceasta pe parcursul ei accidentat, cu momente în care s-a impus sau cu momente dramatice, ce au dus la interzicerea Cenaclului de Luni. Chiar din primul capitol, Cosmin Ciotloș își construiește într-un mod ingenios, aș zice muzical, structura. Cu o răbdare de chinez bătrân, autorul a parcurs colecțiile revistelor, a înregistrat si a analizat cronicile de cenaclu, apoi antologiile cenaclului si tot ceea ce privea mișcarea literară tânără și prefigura un nou climat literar."...