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Literature and Film from East Europes Forgotten "Second World"

Essays of Invitation

By: Gordana P. Crnkovic

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Literature and Film from East Europes Forgotten "Second World"

Essays of Invitation

By: Gordana P. Crnkovic

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces of literature and cinema from this largely forgotten Second World, as well as by the authors formed in it and working in its aftermath, surprise and delight with their contemporary resonance. This book introduces and illuminates a number of these works. It explores how their aesthetic ingenuity discovers ways of engaging existential and universal predicaments, such as how one may survive in the world of victimizations, or imagine a good city, or broach the human boundaries to live as a plant. Like true classics of world art, these novels, stories, and films-to rephrase Bohumil Hrabal-keep telling us things about ourselves we don't know. In lively and jargon-free prose, Gordana P. Crnkovic builds on her rich teaching experience to create paths to these works and reveal how they changed lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501370677

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Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Fires, Foundations, Flourishes

By: Gordana P. Crnkovic

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Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Fires, Foundations, Flourishes

By: Gordana P. Crnkovic

The 1990s violence in the Former Yugoslavia, the worst in Europe since World War II, triggered the conversion of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and cosmopolitan areas of idiosyncratic and independent socialism into regions of xenophobic nationalism, wars, and, afterwards, Western-style democracy and capitalism. Unified by their artistic response to these cataclysmic changes, post-Yugoslav literary works and films have much to offer the wider world. Crnkovic reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance. She presents post-Yugoslav literature and film as art that makes us aware of previously unconsidered things that bring us wars, and those that constitute part of the tapestry of peace. She foregrounds the radical potential of art to change and enrich the global landscapes of concepts, sensitivities, and politics. As such her book is important not only for those interested in this region, but also for all those wanting to discover and engage with world literature and cinema, and willing to encounter the potential of great new art to illuminate and challenge the world we live in.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628926597

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Imagined Dialogues

Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature

By: Gordana Crnković

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Imagined Dialogues

Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature

By: Gordana Crnković

By conducting imagined dialogues between selected literary works - Eastern European on one hand, American and English on the other - this book proposes an effective way of reading literature, one that goes beyond the narrowing categories of contemporary critical trends.

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180

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117185

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9780810117181

Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

The American Impact on European Popular Culture since 1945

By: Sabrina P. Ramet,Gordana Crnkovic

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The American Impact on European Popular Culture since 1945

By: Sabrina P. Ramet,Gordana Crnkovic

Observing European debates about EuroDisney, McDonald's, Hollywood films and television programs, and other vehicles of alleged 'Americanization,' one might imagine that Europe was in serious risk of losing its distinct cultural identity in the melting pot of American pop culture. The loaded charge of 'kitsch' is a central aspect of the debate, with Disney stories, for example, branded as simplified travesties of authentic European folk tales. But the relationship between European and American popular cultures is vastly more complex. Reciprocal and interactive, it is a relationship in which the European-American partnership (for example, in cinematic ventures) has become quite common. And again, artifacts which have a certain meaning and reception in America may have a completely different meaning and reception in Europe; in effect behaving as different artifacts altogether. And finally, as this book shows, American cultural influences have penetrated not only the popular realms of European television, fashions, fast food, and rock music, but also such domains as youth organizations, literature, UFO culture, and religious faith.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0585455007

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9780585455006

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Fires, Foundations, Flourishes

By: Gordana P. Crnkovic

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Fires, Foundations, Flourishes

By: Gordana P. Crnkovic

Reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance.

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A&C Black

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1441171770

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Literature and Film from East Europes Forgotten "Second World"

Essays of Invitation

By: Gordana P. Crnkovic

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Imagined Dialogues

Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature

By: Gordana Crnković

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Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature

By: Gordana Crnković

By conducting "imagined dialogues" between selected literary works--Eastern Europeans like Kis and Borowski on one hand, American and English writers like Cage and Ishiguro on the other--this book proposes an effective new way of reading literature, one that goes beyond the narrowing categories of contemporary critical trends. A new perspective on each of the works emerges, as well as a heightened sense of the liberating power of literature.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117177

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Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

The American Impact on European Popular Culture since 1945

By: Sabrina P. Ramet,Gordana Crnkovic

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By: Sabrina P. Ramet,Gordana Crnkovic

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Information and Computation

Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation

By: Mark Semenovich Burgin,Gordana Dodig Crnkovic

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Information and Computation

Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation

By: Mark Semenovich Burgin,Gordana Dodig Crnkovic

This volume provides a cutting-edge view of the world's leading authorities in fields where information and computation play a central role.

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World Scientific

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9814295485

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Literature and Film from East Europes Forgotten "Second World"

Literature and Film from East Europes Forgotten "Second World"

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Imagined Dialogues

Imagined Dialogues

Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Literature and Film from East Europes Forgotten "Second World"

Literature and Film from East Europes Forgotten "Second World"

Imagined Dialogues

Imagined Dialogues

Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

Information and Computation

Information and Computation

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