
Kundera and Modernity
English/Spanish Edition
Liisa Steinby(Author)
Purdue University Press
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
249 pages
978-1-55753-637-2 (ISBN)
Description
While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined.
Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analysing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinised in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies.
Key Points:
Offers new insights into the work of the popular modern writer Milan Kundera.
Expands the reader's understanding of the meaning of the concept of "modernity."
Widens the literature available in English about Central European culture.
Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analysing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinised in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies.
Key Points:
Offers new insights into the work of the popular modern writer Milan Kundera.
Expands the reader's understanding of the meaning of the concept of "modernity."
Widens the literature available in English about Central European culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
West Lafayette
United States
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55753-637-2 (9781557536372)
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Liisa Steinby (until 2007 Liisa Saariluoma) teaches comparative literature at the University of Turku, Finland. Her interests in research include aspects of modernity in the novel from the eighteenth century to the present.