History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes
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This monumental history of ECE literary cultures is both an authoritative account of these cultures and an ingenious prod to their further investigation. It is composed of learned, erudite, and vastly informative essays of the highest standard, many of which make distinct contributions to scholarship and criticism. The idiosyncratic and even quirky dynamics of the literary cultures of East Central Europe receive their due, and serve as the organizing principles of these four volumes. The reader will find a large variety of approaches and styles, and will be grateful to the editors for insuring clarity of expression throughout. This history is both a work of reference and an endless source of discovery.
- Wlad Godzich, Distinguished Professor of General and Comparative Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz,
The editors of this volume, Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer have meticulously organized the collective comments and interactions of a broad cadré of international scholars thereby offering lucid and candid perspectives on key literary phenomena. Due to the consortium of international scholars contributing to these four volumes, we now have detailed insights into the extraordinary deprivations and remarkable achievements of this region.
- Fausto Bedoya, in Rampike Magazine, 20.2 (2011),
H.L.C.E.C.E. successfully responds to and embraces emergent theoretical and practical approaches to writing literary history by recognizing the multiple complexities of voice that arose in Twentieth Century literature. [...] The editors of this volume, Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer have meticulously organized the collective comments and interactions of a broad cadré of international scholars thereby offering lucid and candid perspectives on key literary phenomena. Due to the consortium of international scholars contributing to these four volumes, we now have detailed insights into the extraordinary deprivations and remarkable achievements of this region.
- Fausto Bedoya, Rampike Magazine, Volume 20, Number 1,
Types and stereotypes brings together articles that rethink the figures of National Poets, figurations of the Family, Women, Outlaws, and Others, as well as figures of Trauma and Mediation. As in the previous three volumes, the historical and imaginary figures discussed here constantly change and readjust to new political and social conditions. An Epilogue complements the basic history, focusing on the contradictory transformations of East-Central European literary cultures after 1989. This volume will be of interest to the region’s literary historians, to students and teachers of comparative literature, to cultural historians, and to the general public interested in exploring the literatures of a rich and resourceful cultural region.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer.literarycultures.pdf