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Kundera and modernity /
While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in the author'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 even call him a p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Comparative cultural studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in the author'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 even call him 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. This book fills this vacuum by analyzing 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 scrutinized in detail. This book is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies. -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 249 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781612492476 1612492479 9781612492483 1612492487 |