Irma Ratiani

Anti-utopian Mood, Liminality, and Literature

From International Literary Experience to Georgian.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book deals with the problem of anti-utopian way of thinking in literature, its preconditions, and variations in the 20th century. Moreover, it is a first attempt to read one of the most prominent Georgian texts - Jakho's Dispos-sessed by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili - in the context of anti-uto-pian thinking. The book aims to present how relevant 20th century Georgian literature is to this literary trend. Research was conducted in the frame of comparative studies. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister, and Jakho's Dispos-sessed by Mikheil Javakhishvili.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 282156
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9783631821565
• ISBN-10: 3631821565
• Artikelnr.: 59780406

Autorenporträt

Irma Ratiani is a Georgian scholar and translator. She is a professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) and the chair of the Depart-ment of General and Comparative Literary Studies. She is a director of Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and Honorable President of Geor-gian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA).

Inhaltsangabe

I. Literary Anti-Utopia and the General Trends of Its Development

II. Chapter Two. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches toward the Study of Literary Anti-Utopia

III. Liminal Models of Chronotope in 20th-Century Eschatological Anti-Utopia: Vladimir Nabokov's - "Invitation to a Beheading" and "Bend Sinister", and Mikheil Javakhishvili's "Jaqo's Dispossessed"