For most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by the Ottomans, and absorbed into Yugoslavia. Today it is the capital city of the newly independent Croatia. In Zagreb: A Cultural History, Celia Hawkesworth guides us through a modern city that reflects all the important trends in Central European culture, architecture, and fashion. We visit the city's center, a beautiful "green horseshoe," graced with trees and public gardens, and lined with imposing buildings. Hawkesworth explores...
For most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by t...
A History of Central European Women's Writing offers a unique survey of literature from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It illustrates the development of women's writing in the region from the middle ages to the present day, placing individual writers in their social and political context and showing how processes shaping their lives are reflected in their works.
A History of Central European Women's Writing offers a unique survey of literature from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, and Sl...
This book offers rare insights into the cultural traditions that have shaped the Balkan region - from pagan times, through folk culture, the medieval Christian churches, the encounter between Christianity and Islam, up to the religious and national mythologies that have proved so destructive in the present day. With the Balkans a central focus of European concern at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume is a timely reminder of the complex cultural processes that continue to affect the modern world.
This book offers rare insights into the cultural traditions that have shaped the Balkan region - from pagan times, through folk culture, the medieval ...
Winner of the Ksaver Sandor Gjalski Prize These are the first two volumes of the Croatian poet and novelist Irena Vrkljan's lyrical autobiography. Although each novel illuminates the other, they also stand alone as original and independent works of art. In The Silk, the Shears, Vrkljan traces the symbolic and moral significance of her life, and her vision of the fate of women in her mother's time and in her own. Marina continues the intense analysis of the poetic self, using the life of Marina Tsvetaeva to meditate on the processes behind biography.
Winner of the Ksaver Sandor Gjalski Prize These are the first two volumes of the Croatian poet and novelist Irena Vrkljan's lyrical...
A comic novel of war from a teenager's point-of-view Published as the siege of Sarajevo ended, Lodgers is a hilarious, unsentimental report from the front lines of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Detergent mixed with flour, museum relics sold to U.N. peacekeepers, the magic power of laminated accreditation-all of the folly and the horror of that time are revealed in the sarcastic report of the novel's teenage would-be authoress. Maja lives in the basement of a Sarajevo museum, enduring with equal annoyance Serb artillery and vegetarian meals that taste like fried sponge. Her father, the...
A comic novel of war from a teenager's point-of-view Published as the siege of Sarajevo ended, Lodgers is a hilarious, unsentimental report from t...
A comic novel of war from a teenager's point-of-view Published as the siege of Sarajevo ended, Lodgers is a hilarious, unsentimental report from the front lines of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Detergent mixed with flour, museum relics sold to U.N. peacekeepers, the magic power of laminated accreditation-all of the folly and the horror of that time are revealed in the sarcastic report of the novel's teenage would-be authoress. Maja lives in the basement of a Sarajevo museum, enduring with equal annoyance Serb artillery and vegetarian meals that taste like fried sponge. Her father, the...
A comic novel of war from a teenager's point-of-view Published as the siege of Sarajevo ended, Lodgers is a hilarious, unsentimental report from t...
Describes the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia.
Discusses the earlier period up until the eighteenth century; focuses on the trials and tribulations that affected feminism and women's literature throughout the twentieth century.
Describes the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia.
Dubravka Ugre'sic Ellen Elias-Bursac Celia Hawkesworth
Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism.
"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."--Times Literary Supplement
Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe"s greatest--and most entertaining--thinkers and creators, and it's in her essays that Ugresic is at her sharpest. With laser focus, she pierces our pop culture, dissecting the absurdity of daily life with a wit and style that's all her own.
Whether it's commentary on jaded youth, the ways technology has made us soft in the head, or how...
Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism.
"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."--Times Literary Supp...
