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Grotesque Revisited
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...
Lithuania
Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the bloody conflict elsewhere in the former Soviet Union of Yugoslavia, where the aspirations to independence of the constituent republics were either violently resisted or dissolved into inter-ethnic violence....
The Baltic States
Since the end of the Cold War there has been an increased interest in the Baltics. The Baltic States brings together three titles, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to provide a comprehensive and analytical guide integrating history, political science, economic development and contemporary events into one account. Since gaining their independence, each country has developed at its own pace with its own agenda and facing its own obstacles. The authors examine the tensions accompanying a post-communist return to Europe after the long years of separation and how each country has responded to the demands of becoming a modern European state. Estonia was the first of the former Soviet republics to enter membership negotiations with the European Union in 1988 and is a potential candidate for the next round of EU expansion in 2004. Lithuania and Latvia have also expressed their desire for future membership of NATO and the EU.
Textual Scholarship and the Material Book
In the last decades, the emphasis in textual scholarship has moved onto creation, production, process, collaboration; onto the material manifestations of a work; onto multiple rather than single versions; onto reception and book history. Textual scholarship now includes not only textual editing, but any form of scholarship that looks at the materiality of text, of writing, of reading, and of the book. The essays in this collection explore many questions, about methodology and theory, arising from this widening scope of textual scholarship. The range of texts discussed, from Sanskrit epic via Medieval Latin commentary through English and Scottish Ballads to the plays of Samuel Beckett and the...
History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Fourteen specialists of Central and Eastern European politics explore memory policies and politics by examining how and why contested memories are constantly reactivated in the former Soviet bloc. The book explores how new social and political actors can challenge the traditional narratives about the past produced by state bodies.
Spectrum
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Slavic Review
"American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies" (varies).
Lituanus
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Broliai bajorai
Kūrinio „Iš visur po truputį. Atsiskyrėlio gavenda“ II tomas - „Broliai bajorai“. Antroje knygos dalyje rašytojas piešia Panemunių miestelių ir dvarelių regiono socialinį portretą, daugiausiai dėmesio skirdamas bajorijai. Aprašoma provincijos bajorų kasdiena - ūkinės problemos, bylinėjimasis, laisvalaikis, religinė praktika, apranga, valgis ir kt. Moravskis ne tik kuria spalvingą „brolių bajorų“ gyvenimo vaizdą, bet ir gilinasi į šio socialinio sluoksnio problemas ir perspektyvas.Kūrinyje apstu ryškių ir sodrių bežemės bajorijos, tapusios vadinamųjų inteligentiškų profesijų (pedagogų, teisininkų, dvasininkų) atstovais, portretų. Todėl tai k...
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