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Myth in the Modern Novel - Imagining the Absolute (Hardcover): Liisa Steinby Myth in the Modern Novel - Imagining the Absolute (Hardcover)
Liisa Steinby
R4,051 Discovery Miles 40 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Myth in the Modern Novel: Imagining the Absolute posits a twofold thesis. First, although Modernity is regarded as an era dominated by science and rational thought, it has in fact not relinquished the hold of myth, a more "primitive" form of thought which is difficult to reconcile with modern rationality. Second, some of the most important statements as to the reconcilability of myth and Modernity are found in the work of certain prominent novelists. This book offers a close examination of the work of eleven writers from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, representing German, French, American, Czech and Swedish literature. The analyses of individual novels reveal a variety of intriguing views of myth in Modernity, and offer an insight into the "modernizing" transformations myth has undergone when applied in the modern novel. The study shows the presence of the "subconscious", the mythic layer, in modern western culture and how this has been dealt with in novelistic literature.

The Politics of Literary History - Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990... The Politics of Literary History - Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Liisa Steinby, Benedikts Kalnačs, Mikhail Oshukov, Viola Parente-Čapková
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries. While Russia saw a return to a more nationalist way of thinking about literature and a new emphasis on Orthodox religion after the fall of the Soviet Union, the opposite is true for Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland. In these countries, literary historiography fosters connections between Western scholarship and literatures written in the national language, and engages with questions such as transnationalism, minorities, culture and power, and the cultural construction of identities. This book scrutinizes the different ways in which the construction of national, cultural and European identities has occurred in and through the literary historiography of North-Eastern Europe in the last few decades.

Bakhtin and his Others - (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism (Paperback): Liisa Steinby, Tintti Klapuri Bakhtin and his Others - (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism (Paperback)
Liisa Steinby, Tintti Klapuri
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bakhtin and his Others - (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism (Hardcover, New): Liisa Steinby, Tintti Klapuri Bakhtin and his Others - (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism (Hardcover, New)
Liisa Steinby, Tintti Klapuri
R1,963 Discovery Miles 19 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Bakhtin and his Others' aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality - including his concepts of chronotope and literary polyphony - by reconsidering his ideas in relation to the sources he employs, and taking into account later research on similar topics. The case studies referred to within this text also show how Bakhtin's ideas, when seen in light of this method, can be constructively employed in contemporary literary research.

Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover, 0): Liisa Steinby, Aino Makikalli Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover, 0)
Liisa Steinby, Aino Makikalli; Contributions by Michal McKeon, John Richetti, Monika Fludernik, …
R4,203 Discovery Miles 42 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, actually derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.

Kundera and Modernity - English/Spanish Edition (Paperback, New): Liisa Steinby Kundera and Modernity - English/Spanish Edition (Paperback, New)
Liisa Steinby
R1,455 Discovery Miles 14 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analysing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinised in detail. Steinby’s Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies. Key Points: Offers new insights into the work of the popular modern writer Milan Kundera. Expands the reader’s understanding of the meaning of the concept of “modernity.” Widens the literature available in English about Central European culture.

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