Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference - Couverture souple

Starosta, Anita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810132028 ISBN 13 : 9780810132023

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 of language and undermines the ideological and hermeneutic coherence of established categories. In original readings of Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz, among other twentieth-century writers, Form and Instability unsettles cultural boundaries as we know them.

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À propos de l?auteur

ANITA STAROSTA has taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Bryant University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810132028
• ISBN 13: 9780810132023
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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