Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist Ren Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction.
Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found "the One" at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire.
At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.
Автор: Balazs Trencsenyi Название: A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe ISBN: 0198803133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198803133 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 46450.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The volume offers the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe.
Автор: Perugini Название: Inequalities During and After Transition in Central and Eastern Europe ISBN: 1137460970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137460974 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 88500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book deals with the key aspects of social and economic inequalities developed during the transition of the formerly planned European economies. Particular emphasis is given to the latest years available in order to consider the effects of the global crisis started in 2008-2009.
Автор: Dhand, Otilia Название: Idea of central europe ISBN: 1784538531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784538538 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Central Europe is one of the key notions of classical geopolitics yet it has always been a somewhat elusive concept. Originally perceived as a plan for a German dominated political and economic union, it subsequently emerged to threaten leaders in the East and West in a variety of forms. Otilia Dhand provides a critical examination of the concept of Central Europe, from its early inception to the present day. Making extensive use of archival material, she shows how successive manifestations of Central Europe - of whatever vintage - have failed to bring about their intended changes on the international structure, and how customary claims about Central Europe are not supported by the original source material. The result is a work of outstanding scholarship that advances our understanding of regionalism and geopolitics in Europe.
Название: Historical memory of central and east european communism ISBN: 1138542261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138542266 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 163330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume deals with the historical memory of the communist movement in Central and Eastern Europe when it was in power, with the memory of communism as a part of post-1989 left identity, and with state-socialist and post-socialist memorial landscapes.
Автор: Arnis Sauka , Danica Purg Название: Entrepreneurship in central and eastern europe ISBN: 1138228516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138228511 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 67360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This text provides an overview of entrepreneurship in a range of important emerging markets. A team of expert contributors provide analysis of entrepreneurship practice. Empirical insight into how entrepreneurial firms in Central and Eastern Europe internationalize is supplemented with context provided by world-renowned editors.
Автор: Licia Cianetti, James Dawson, Sean Hanley Название: Rethinking `Democratic Backsliding` in Central and Eastern Europe ISBN: 0367210002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367210007 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book seeks to inject fresh thinking into the debate on democratic deterioration in Central and Eastern Europe, viewing `democratic backsliding` through the prism of a range of cases beyond Hungary and Poland. This book was originally published as a special issue of East European Politics.
Автор: Cervinkova Название: Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe ISBN: 1137524480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137524485 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In eleven ethnographic chapters of Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe examines how issues of global economic and cultural dependencies, mobilities, citizens activism, social movements, and socio-political aspects of post-socialist modernities articulate on the level of everyday discourse and practices.
Автор: Hoffenaar Jan, Kr?ger Dieter, Zabecki David T. Название: Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968 ISBN: 0813136512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813136516 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 42240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining the military planning of NATO and Warsaw Pact member nations from the end of World War II to the beginning of d?tente. Informed by material from recently opened archives, this collection investigates the perceptions and actions of the rival coalitions, exploring the challenges presented by nuclear technology, examining how military commanders` perceptions changed from the 1950s to the 1960s, and discussing logistical coordination among allied states. The result is a detailed study that offers much-needed new perspectives on the military aspects of the early Cold War.
Автор: Tomasz Zarycki Название: Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe ISBN: 0415787971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415787970 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world. Drawing on post-colonial theory and on identity discourses in the writings of local intelligentsia figures, the book shows how people in these countries no longer think of themselves as part of the "east", and how they have invented new stereotypes of the countries to the east of them, such as Ukraine and Belarus, to which they see themselves as superior. The book demonstrates how there are a whole range of ideologies of "eastness", how these have changed over time, and how such ideologies impact, in a practical way, relations with countries further east.
Автор: Irina Livezeanu and Arpad von Klimo Название: The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 ISBN: 0415584337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415584333 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 234790.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Covering territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 explores the origins and evolution of modernity in this turbulent region. This book applies fresh critical approaches to major historical controversies and debates, expanding the study of a region that has experienced persistent and profound change and yet has long been dominated by narrowly nationalist interpretations.
Written by an international team of contributors that reflects the increasing globalization and pluralism of East Central European studies, chapters discuss key themes such as economic development, the relationship between religion and ethnicity, the intersection between culture and imperial, national, wartime, and revolutionary political agendas, migration, women's and gender history, ideologies and political movements, the legacy of communism, and the ways in which various states in East Central Europe deployed and were formed by the politics of memory and commemoration. This book uses new methodologies in order to fundamentally reshape perspectives on the development of East Central Europe over the past three centuries.
Transnational and comparative in approach, this volume presents the latest research on the social, cultural, political and economic history of modern East Central Europe, providing an analytical and comprehensive overview for all students of this region.
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