Form and Instability - Anita Starosta

Form and Instability

Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2015
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3259-7 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. “Eastern Europe” in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object that is continually misapprehended.
How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. ""Eastern Europe"" in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object that is continually misapprehended. From the intersection of comparative literature, area studies, and literary theory, Anita Starosta considers the epistemological and aesthetic consequences of the disappearance of the Second World. Literature here becomes a critical lens in its own right—both object and method, it confronts us with the rhetorical dimension of language and undermines the ideological and hermeneutic coherence of established categories. In original readings of Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz, among other twentieth-century writers, Form and Instability unsettles cultural boundaries as we know them.

Anita Starosta has taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Bryant University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. She is currently a lecturer of English at RISD.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.12.2015
Reihe/Serie FlashPoints
Verlagsort Evanston
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 464 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8101-3259-1 / 0810132591
ISBN-13 978-0-8101-3259-7 / 9780810132597
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