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Kundera and Modernity (Comparative Cultural Studies) (Spanish Edition)
Liisa Steinby
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Paperback. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 analysing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in ... Read more
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 analysing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557536372
SKU
V9781557536372
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About Liisa Steinby
Liisa Steinby (until 2007 Liisa Saariluoma) teaches comparative literature at the University of Turku, Finland. Her interests in research include aspects of modernity in the novel from the eighteenth century to the present.
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