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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer

Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the History of the… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXV] 2010. xi, 714 pp.

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer

The third volume in the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe focuses on the making and remaking of those institutional structures that engender and regulate the creation, distribution, and reception of literature. The focus here is not so much on shared institutions but rather on… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXII] 2007. xiv, 522 pp.

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer

Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XX] 2006. xiv, 512 pp.

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume I

Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer

National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XIX] 2004. xx, 647 pp.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies

Edited by A. James Arnold

Cross-Cultural Studies is the culminating effort of a distinguished team of international scholars who have worked since the mid-1980s to create the most complete analysis of Caribbean literature ever undertaken. Conceived as a major contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XII] 1997. xviii, 399 pp.

The Muzzled Muse: Literature and censorship in South Africa

Margreet de Lange

“The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996)A critical assessment of literature produced under… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 32] 1997. x, 181 pp.

Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 46] 1997. xvii, 282 pp.

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt: Themes and ideas

Maria A. Schenkeveld

Dutch literature of the 17th century, while not as famous as other elements of the culture of the Dutch Golden Age, deserves independent focus, not only because of its own intrinsic worth, but also because of the evidence of strong social concern that it presents and the light it sheds on other… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 28] 1991. x, 216 pp., 60 ills.

The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature

Edited by Ewa M. Thompson

In Gorbachev's Russia and outside of it the strength and scope of Russian nationalism is currently a subject of strenuous scholarly debate. The many and varied forms national ideology takes in Russian literature are the subject of this collection of essays. Over the past two hundred years Russians… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 27] 1991. xvi, 216 pp.

Pinnacles of India's Past: Selections from the Ṛgveda

Translated and annotated by Walter H. Maurer

The Ṛgveda is the oldest of the books that comprise the scriptures of Hinduism. While its age cannot be accurately determined, it can be said with reasonable certainty that it must have existed in its present form at least as early as 1000 BC. It consists of 1,028 hymns, arranged, according to the… read more

[University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia, 2] 1986. xi, 350 pp.

Slavic Structuralism

Endre Bojtar

This work examines Czech Structuralism from the mid-nineteen twenties until 1948 (J. Mukařovský, R. Jakobson, F. Vodička, R. Wellek, etc.), the Polish so-called Integral School, lasting from about 1930 until 1945, (M. Kridl, K. Budzyk, F. Siedlicki, D. Hopensztand, S. Żółkiewski), as well as R.… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 11] 1985. 160 pp.

Ezourvedam: A French Veda of the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Ludo Rocher

The Ezourvedam, used by Voltaire among others, as sourcebook for the most ancient of religions, was thereupon found to have been a fraud. Actually it was composed by a Christian – the text shows him to have been a French Jesuit missionary, who did not necessarily know Sanskrit – in order to convert… read more

[University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia, 1] 1984. vii, 214 pp.

The Structure of the Literary Process: Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodicka

Edited by Peter Steiner, Miroslav Červenka and Ronald Vroon

These papers on the structure of the literary process were brought together in memory of Felix Vodička (1909–1974). Contributions by: Jacek Baluch, Miroslav Červenka, Květoslav Chvatík, E.M. van Dam-Havelková, Sergej Davydov, Lubomir Doležel, Miroslav Drozda, Jan van der Eng, F.W. Galan, Mojmír… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 8] 1982. viii, 613 pp.

The Architecture of Anna Karenina: A history of its writing, structure and message

Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor

When criticized about the lack of architecture in Anna Karenina, connecting the themes of Levin and Anna Karenina, Tolstoj disagreed: “The arches of the vault are brought together in such a way that it is even impossible to notice where the keystone is.” This book explores the architecture,… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 127] 1975. 127 pp.