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Raymond Carver's personal story as a writer became publicly known through an unusually intense cooperation with his literary agent Gordon Lish. Carver’s career can be viewed as the story of a fight for the control of his writerly voice in which he is doomed to fail due to the heterogeneity characterizing the genesis of his works. The parallel versions of the same stories in the Carver canon not only pose a threat to any attempt of a simplistic evaluation of his literary legacy but also raise questions about the authority of the writer. The author of the present book considers the choices Carver, Lish and other editors made part of the collective social act of manufacturing and attempts to carry out a neutral analysis of the various versions.
Brüche prägen die Geschichte und Kultur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts; dabei ist auch das konventionelle Erzählen ins Stocken gekommen. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes untersuchen literarische Texte von Autoren der Avantgarde und von Schriftstellerinnen mit Migrationshintergrund, die diese Unterbrechungen von Kontinuität repräsentieren, aber auch Brüche bewirken: Die Avantgarde bricht stilistisch mit konventionellen narrativen Formen und Ausdrucksweisen; der Wechsel von bedrucktem Papier zu Bildschirmen und digitaler Programmierung verändert das Schreiben und Lesen. Exophone Schriftsteller mit Migrationshintergrund schreiben anders als Autorinnen, die sich in ihrer Heimatkultur bewegen ...
The geographic scope of this work is all of Europe, European Russia, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, the Mediterranean Islands such as Sicily and Corsica, the Caucasus area north of Turkey, including territory now in the new republics of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and the Balkans and Greece. There are entries for shorts, animation, silents, television series, films (both theatrical and made-for-television releases), miniseries, epics, war films, dramas, literary adaptations, comedies, horrors, mysteries, musical comedies, and operettas. Complete entries provide such particulars as the title, date, alternate title(s), black & white or color, nationality, director, production company, l...
A study of the film art that was still being produced behind the Iron Curtain, even during such repressive regimes as those of Stalin and Brezhnev. By means of detailed historiographical essays for each country, it provides a history of cinematic evolution in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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