The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe

Herausgeber: I. Barta, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780415592376
• ISBN-10: 0415592372
• Artikelnr.: 32942242

Autorenporträt

Peter I. Barta is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Surrey, UK Foreword writer Katalin Bogyay is President of the General Conference of UNESCO and Hungary's Ambassador to UNESCO. In 1999 she founded the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London and served as its director between 1999 and 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword New Paradigms in Changing Spaces: An Introduction 1. The Wall Has
Fallen on All of Us 2. Twenty Years after the Curtain Fell A Personal
Account by an Austrian 3. The Rediscovery of Central Europe in the 1980s 4.
Gulfs and Gaps--Prague and Lisbon--1989 and 2009 5. Borders in Mind or How
to Re-invent Identities 6. The Iron Curtain, The Wall and Performative
'Verfremdung' 7. The Re-Emergence of National Cultures Following
Independence in the Baltic States 8. Explosions, Shifts and Backtracking in
Post-Soviet Fiction 9. Neither East Nor West: Polyphony and
Deterritorialization in Contemporary European Fiction 10. The Fall of the
Iron Curtain and the New Linguistic Landscape of East-Central Europe