The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Harold Segel - 2008-05-16

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

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New. Covering Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine, Harold B. Segel, a longtime scholar of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature, writes a clear, concise, and balanced history of Eastern European literature. Segel not only examines the literary response to the quasi-colonial oppression that stretched across Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1991 but also details the impact of the downfall of communism and the way in which the challenges of the postcommunist period are being met. Segel's history follows a unique chronological-topical approach that begins with the treatment of World War II in Eastern European fiction and follows with such topics as the postwar imposition of Soviet-style literary controls, primarily in the form of socialist realism; literary responses to the brutal campaign of collectivization after 1945; the impact of the death of Stalin and… Read More

Columbia Univ Pr, 2008. Hardcover. New. 448 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.00 inches.