Kundera and Modernity - English/Spanish Edition

Informationen zum Autor Liisa Steinby (until 2007 Liisa Saariluoma) teaches comparative literature at the University of Turku. Her interests in research include aspects of modernity in the novel from the eighteenth century to the present. Her single-authored book publications include "Der postindividualistische Roman" (1994)! Nietzsche als Roman. "Uber die Sinnkonstituierung in Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus" (1996)! Erzahlstruktur und Bildungsroman. "Wielands Geschichte des Agathon! Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (2004)! and "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre und die Entstehung des modernen Zeitbewusstseins" (2005). She has published fourteen collected volumes in addition to about seventy scholarly articles. Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Liisa Steinby
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9781557536372
• ISBN: 978-1-55753-637-2
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Comparative Cultural Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies