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Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference (FlashPoints)
Anita Starosta
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Description for Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference (FlashPoints)
Hardcover. How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. "Eastern Europe" in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object that is continually misapprehended. Series: Flashpoints. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. ""Eastern Europe"" in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object that is continually misapprehended. From the intersection of comparative literature, area studies, and literary theory, Anita Starosta considers the epistemological and aesthetic consequences of the disappearance of the Second World. Literature here becomes a critical lens in its own right—both object and method, it confronts us with the rhetorical dimension ... Read more
How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. ""Eastern Europe"" in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object that is continually misapprehended. From the intersection of comparative literature, area studies, and literary theory, Anita Starosta considers the epistemological and aesthetic consequences of the disappearance of the Second World. Literature here becomes a critical lens in its own right—both object and method, it confronts us with the rhetorical dimension ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Series
Flashpoints
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810132597
SKU
V9780810132597
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Ref
99-15
About Anita Starosta
Anita Starosta has taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Bryant University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. She is currently a lecturer of English at RISD.
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