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The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture
Alfred Thomas
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Description for The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture
Hardcover. Examines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 2AGZ; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
The Bohemian Body examines the modernist forces within nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights. By re-examining the work of key Czech male and female writers and poets from the National Revival to the Velvet Revolution, Alfred Thomas exposes the tendency of Czech literary criticism to separate the political and the personal in modern Czech culture. He points instead to the complex interplay of the political and the personal across ethnic, cultural, and intellectual lines and within the works ... Read more
The Bohemian Body examines the modernist forces within nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights. By re-examining the work of key Czech male and female writers and poets from the National Revival to the Velvet Revolution, Alfred Thomas exposes the tendency of Czech literary criticism to separate the political and the personal in modern Czech culture. He points instead to the complex interplay of the political and the personal across ethnic, cultural, and intellectual lines and within the works ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299222802
SKU
V9780299222802
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About Alfred Thomas
Alfred Thomas is professor and head of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420. He is also coeditor of Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves.
Reviews for The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture
Thomas's book is remarkable for its scope and intellectual coherence. He notes that the oscillation between the parochial concerns of a small nation under threat of cultural extinction, and a cosmopolitan impulse that is no less powerful, is evident in Czech literary scholarship. The Bohemian Body's novel point of view is bound to stimulate discussion across the field of Czech ... Read more