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Laurynas Katkus brings to these poems in Bootleg Copy a broad range of historical and literary acumen. His learning - he is a polyglot with Russian, Lithuanian, English, and German literature at the budding finger-tip of his tongue - combined with an intense lyrical and emotional energy, gives his "flashbacks" and often personal narratives a nuanced understory that a reader or listener could explore for years. And yet the translucent surface, the clear, classical cadence of the vignettes of many of his poems, are readily accessible at a first reading. Katkus doesn't indulge himself with playful and experimental obscurity, but rather goes to the heart and intelligence of post-Soviet Lithuania...
This collection of essays aims to recapitulate the state of grotesque poetics in modern and post-modern writing. It concentrates on Central and Eastern Europe, introducing the Western reader to the variety and ingenuity of this region’s literary traditions, ranging from German and Russian to Lithuanian and Romanian literatures. At the same time, it seeks to highlight the importance of the grotesque mode of writing in the region. It includes new insights and interpretations of theories on grotesque and Menippean satire including (but not limited to) the works of Mikhail Bakhtin. The historic scope of the volume ranges from the legacies of Nazi dictatorship and exile to the post-communist ti...
The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (...
Ireland and the Balkans have come to represent divided and (re)united communities. They both provide effective microcosms of national, ethnic, political, military, religious, ideological and cultural conflicts in their respective regions and, as a result, they demonstrate real and imaginary divisions. This book will specifically focus on the history, politics and literature of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland, while making comparative reference to some of Europe’s other disputed and divided regions. Using case-studies such as Kosovo and Serbia; Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Russia and Belarus; Greece and Macedonia, it examines ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘border’ discourse, the topography of war and violence, post-war settlement and reconciliation, and the location and negotiation of national, ethnic, religious, political and cultural identities. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, history, politics, Irish studies, Slavonic studies, area studies and literary studies.
The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which W. B. Yeats has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of continental Europe. There is a remarkable split between the often politicized reception in Eastern European countries but also Spain on the one hand, and the more sober scholarly response in Western Europe on the other. Yeats's Irishness and the pre-eminence of his lyrical work have posed continuous challenges. Three further essays describe the widely divergent reactions to Yeats in his native Ireland, during his lifetime and up to the most recent years.
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Monografijoje aptariami stebuklingieji Švč. Mergelės Marijos atvaizdai ir jų matymą bei suvokimą XVII–XVIII a. Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaištystėje liudijantys šaltiniai: stebuklų knygos, votai, kopijos ir kiti stebuklingojo atvaizdo aplinkos fenomenai. Knygoje siekiama nubrėžti tam tikrus visuomenės santykių su kultiniu atvaizdu modelio kontūrus, atskleidžiant, kaip paveikslas ar statula įgyja stebuklingojo atvaizdo statusą, kokie procesai lydi šį tapsmą ir kokie kultūros reiškiniai iki šiol tvirtina jo gyvasties patirtis.
Die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene umfasst über 9.000 Einträge lebender Verfasserinnen und Verfasser schöngeistiger Literatur in deutscher Sprache: Adressen, Lebensdaten, Mitgliedschaften, Auszeichnungen sowie 140.000 Veröffentlichungen; im Anhang u. a.: Übersetzer, Verlage, Literaturpreise, Fachverbände, Literaturhäuser, Zeitschriften, Agenturen; Festkalender, Nekrolog, geographische Übersicht.
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