Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Eastern European (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)

Joseph, Judah, and Plot explores the concept of narrative continuity in Genesis 37-50. By tracing the plot-structure of the story about Jacob and his sons, author Paul Twiss assesses the cohesiveness and intent of the narrative. He uses Paul Ricoeur's philosophical work, Time and Narrative, as a methodological foundation to inform a new, literary reading of the text. Central to the author's understanding of plot is the importance of the narrative world in which the drama unfolds, and the intended effect on the reader. When we trace the plot-structure from the narrative...

The eponymous inter esse means the elusive "third" position of that which lies between, that which escapes unambiguous classification, and constitutes the essence of Romanticism. The book provides a constellation of texts, a clash of case studies that provide contrasting views of Romanticism, shifting between inspiration and virtuosity (Hugo and Mickiewicz), feminine poetry and the fantasy of femininity (Desbordes-Valmore and ¯michowska; de Nerval and Krasiñski), along with optimistic versus pessimistic-even nihilistic-reactions to disenchantment with the Enlightenment (Novalis,...

This book bridges international human rights law and literary studies, examining dystopian novels through the lens of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The author analyses classical dystopias and a selection of feminist dystopias, exploring depictions of human rights violations and gender-based discrimination in fiction. The book deconstructs dystopian societies, revealing mechanisms of oppression and highlighting literature’s legal and social relevance. Structured like legal commentaries, it offers both theoretical and practical analyses of UDHR provisions. Each article...

"Asia in the Mirror offers a bold and necessary reframing of Asian studies by situating the continent not as a singular object of knowledge but as a site of intersecting gazes, representations, and epistemic dislocations. Drawing on postcolonial critique, comparative philology, and cultural theory, the volume triangulates self-perception, otherness, and Western reception to interrogate how Asia has been imagined, translated, and contested. In doing so, it provincializes Eurocentric methodologies, foregrounds plural and situated knowledges, and reorients the study of Asia as a...

El propósito de este libro es alentar la reflexión y ampliar la documentación sobre las distintas formas que adquirieron los vanguardismos iberoamericanos durante un marco temporal más dilatado del que suelen enfocar los estudios críticos canónicos, incentivando el reconocimiento de la labor artística tanto de las vanguardias históricas y transatlánticas como de las neovanguardias posbélicas. Se detiene, también, en el fenómeno de la vanguardia política, pues en el ámbito del idioma español, la orilla hispanoamericana puso tempranamente en evidencia la falsa...