TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinby,Liisa
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Kundera and modernity
T2  - Comparative cultural studies
SN  - 9781612492476
AV  - PG5039.21.U6 Z88 2013
U1  - 891.8/685409 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - West Lafayette, Ind.
PB  - Purdue University Press
KW  - Kundera, Milan
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
KW  - Existentialism in literature
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Europe
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analyzing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinized in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781612492476/
ER  -