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001 2012029233
003 DLC
005 20120806112200.0
008 120806s2013 idu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012029233
020 $a9781557536372 (pbk.)
020 $a9781612492476 (epdf)
020 $a9781612492483 (epub)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aPG5039.21.U6$bZ88 2013
082 00 $a891.8/685409$223
084 $aLIT004110$aLIT006000$aLIT007000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSteinby, Liisa.
245 10 $aKundera and modernity /$cLiisa Steinby.
260 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. :$bPurdue University Press,$c2013.
263 $a1301
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $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