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ISBN: 9780230297906 - Performing European Memories Performing European Memories
Milija Gluhovic

ISBN10: 0230297900  ISBN13: 9780230297906
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2013
Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and... More

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ISBN: 9780230247239 - Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov
David Rampton

ISBN10: 0230247237  ISBN13: 9780230247239
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Nov 2012
A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of... More

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ISBN: 9781936235452 - The Russian Avant-Garde & Radical Modernism The Russian Avant-Garde & Radical Modernism
Dennis G Ioffe, Frederick H White

ISBN10: 1936235455  ISBN13: 9781936235452
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Oct 2012
The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. This collection of essays examines the major figures, movements and manifestos of the period. It is suitable for... More

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ISBN: 9780141197197 - Strong Opinions Strong Opinions
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141197196  ISBN13: 9780141197197
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Sep 2012
A collection of the author's interviews that includes coverage that ranges from his own burgeoning literary celebrity to Kubrick's "Lolita" to lepidoptery. Nabokov begins his "Strong Opinions": 'I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished... More

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ISBN: 9781137007148 - The Texture of Culture The Texture of Culture
Aleksei Semenenko

ISBN10: 1137007141  ISBN13: 9781137007148
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 24 Jul 2012
In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in... More

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ISBN: 9781845195533 - Karel Capek Karel Capek
Bohuslava R Bradbrook

ISBN10: 1845195531  ISBN13: 9781845195533
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Jul 2012
Karel Capek is the most important, most versatile, but also the most neglected Czech writer in the twentieth century. His plays RUR and "From the Life of Insects" created a sensation in London in the 1920s; his word robot was introduced into the... More

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ISBN: 9781846143687 - The Enchanter The Enchanter
Lila Azam Zanganeh

ISBN10: 1846143683  ISBN13: 9781846143687
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2012
Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory, Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, this title seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, language in all its... More

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ISBN: 9780857420220 - The Holocaust as Culture The Holocaust as Culture
Imre Kertesz

ISBN10: 0857420224  ISBN13: 9780857420220
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Apr 2012
Reflecting on Imre Kertesz's experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Hungary, this title likens the ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive routines of life under communism. Hungarian Imre Kertesz was... More

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ISBN: 9781107015456 - Nabokov's Theatrical Imagination Nabokov's Theatrical Imagination
Siggy Frank

ISBN10: 1107015456  ISBN13: 9781107015456
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Jan 2012
The first detailed study of Nabokov's plays and of the function of theatrical performance in his fiction. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival material, this study offers a comprehensive assessment of the importance of theatrical... More

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ISBN: 9780230294004 - The Other East and Nineteenth-century British Literature The Other East and Nineteenth-century British Literature
Thomas McLean

ISBN10: 0230294006  ISBN13: 9780230294004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Nov 2011
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe... More