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050 00 $aPG5039.21.U6$bZ88 2013
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100 1 $aSteinby, Liisa.
245 10 $aKundera and modernity /$cLiisa Steinby.
260 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. :$bPurdue University Press,$cc2013.
300 $aix, 249 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aComparative cultural studies
520 $a"While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analyzing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinized in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aKundera, Milan$xCriticism and interpretation.
651 0 $aEurope$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zEurope.
650 0 $aExistentialism in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.$2bisacsh
830 0 $aComparative cultural studies.
852 00 $bglx$hPG5039.21.U6$iZ88 2013