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In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short
Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have
assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by
literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics
argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American
writers is integral to the development of the short story in each
country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary
short story has attained. This collection provides original
analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as
some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted
to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter,
themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story
writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol,
Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short
stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard
Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates
populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more
important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these
essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture
share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures
are deeply intertwined.
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European Writers in Exile (Hardcover)
Robert C. Hauhart, Jeff Birkenstein; Contributions by Katherine Ashley, Katarzyna Balzewska, Rowena Clarke, …
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R4,250
Discovery Miles 42 500
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European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that
address the writers' universal existential dilemma, when viewed
through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I
write, and to whom? While we often understand the term "exile" to
refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home
country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be
defined so narrowly, and the contributors to this volume explore a
range of interesting and evolving definitions. Various countries in
Europe have long been both a refuge for people and writers from
many countries and a strife-torn region which has forced many to
flee within the continent or beyond it. The phrase "in exile"
involves writers moving across borders in multiple directions and
for multiple reasons, including for reasons of duress or personal
quest, and these themes are addressed and critiqued in these
essays. This volume naturally examines the cataclysmic and
near-universal exilic experiences relating to the world wars,
including essays on Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Hannah Arendt
and Leo Strauss. Additionally, essays address the unique early
twentieth-century experiences of Emile Zola, Franz Kafka, Joseph
Conrad, and James Joyce. More contemporary essay subjects include
Milan Kundera, Norman Manea, Eva Hoffman, Caryl Phillips, and W. G.
Sebald. This collection of transnational, globalized European
literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our
contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural,
historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. How does
literary production in an increasingly globalized world-when seen
from exile-affect a view back towards a country or region left
behind? Or, conversely, how does exile push a writer to look
outward to new (trans-)nationalized space(s)? These and other
questions are important to investigate. Taken in sum, European
Writers in Exile offers an academically rigorous, important, and
cohesive volume.
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