Kundera and modernity [electronic resource] / Liisa Steinby.
2013
PG5039.21.U6 Z88 2013
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Title
Kundera and modernity [electronic resource] / Liisa Steinby.
Author
Steinby, Liisa.
ISBN
9781557536372
9781612492476 (electronic book)
9781612492476 (electronic book)
Imprint
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2013.
Language
English
Description
ix, 249 p.
Call Number
PG5039.21.U6 Z88 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
891.8/685409
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Comparative cultural studies.
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