Literary Studies / Central & Eastern European Literature

The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The Soul of Things is a deeply reflective, evocative, and beautifully written memoir. A bestseller in Hungary, where it has been compared to the works of Primo Levi, it marks an important female contribution to the canon of Holocaust writing.

Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have continued, even after its demise in 1943.

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments to take place in Poland over the last one hundred years.

Using familiar and previously unknown materials, Stanislav Shvabrin has created an interpretative chronicle of Vladimir Nabokov’s dialogic engagement with his peers in the field of literary translation, mapping his evolution as translator and translation theorist.

Natalie Kononenko’s expert translation and analysis of Ukrainian epics provides a sweeping social history of folklore that is vital to Ukrainian identity.

As a whole, this work diverges from traditional Pessoa criticism by testifying to the importance of corporeal physicality in his heteronymous experiment and to the prominence of representations of (gendered) sexuality in his work.

Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant.

Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn examines the complexities of the Soviet encounter with Shakespeare. It thus makes an important contribution to the studies of theatre, cross-culturalism, modernism, and postcolonialism.

Osip Mandel’shtam (1891–1938) is considered by many to have been the best Russian poet of his era. This book is the first attempt to describe in a comprehensive way Mandel’shtam’s intellectual world and its effect on his evolution as a thinker.

The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about radical changes in the Russian literary world. Focusing on the current Russian literary scene, Russian Literature, 1988-1994 examines these recent changes.

Sam Solecki has collected and commissioned essays from around the world that provide an overview of Skvorecky’s work, place him in a larger cultural and international context, and offer readings of his fiction.

George S.N. Luckyj provides a survey of the main literary trends of Ukraine, its chief authors, and their works, as seem against the historical background of the present century. Luckyj provides information about literary developments both in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian emigration and diaspora.

Using epic works of literature, Journey to Oblivion examines the two linguistically related cultures and how their symbiotic relationship ended in a macabre dance of death.

This selection of Scottish Gaelic songs brings to light the revealing and often touching poems of some twenty such emigrants. Focusing on themes of emigration and exile, songs from various parts of the new world are included in Gaelic with a facing English translation.

This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction.