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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-05
Category : Albania
ISBN : 9781561310326
...a magical parable of love, death and the power of familial bonds. -Stephen Salisbury, New York Times Book Review
Author : Peter Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351562003
Ismail Kadare has experienced a life of controversy. In his own country and internationally he has been both acclaimed as a writer and condemned as a lackey of the Albanian socialist dictatorship. Coming of age after occupation and war, Kadare (b. 1936) belonged to the first generation of new Albanians. In a land where writers were routinely imprisoned, Kadare produced the most brilliant and subversive works to emerge from socialist Eastern Europe. His work brings to an end the century whose literary beginnings were marked by the terror to which Kafka gave his name. The inaugural award of the International Man-Booker Prize for Literature in 2005 marked an important milestone in the global recognition of Kadare. Ironic, multi-layered and imaginative, Kadare's writing is profoundly opposed to ideology. Through critical analysis of a representative selection of Kadare's works, Peter Morgan explains for a wide audience how Kadare survived and wrote in the repressive Albanian Stalinist environment. Peter Morgan is Professor of European Studies at the University of Western Australia.
Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385670890
"Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness." —Los Angeles Times An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?
Author : Peter Wagstaff
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039102796
This volume assesses the importance of border crossings in the evolution of European culture and identity, as reflected in the work of modern European writers and film-makers. Contributors chart the processes of transition from stability to change, from the known to the culturally unsettled, treating the themes of migration, exile, allegiance and belonging, journey, marginality, the legacy of war and displacement, memory and the denial of memory. What emerges is a cross-disciplinary reappraisal of the concept of identity, in which fixity is replaced by movement, and in which the dynamic process of story-telling, with its narratives of migration, exile, and borders crossed, mirrors the shifting and nomadic pluralities of modern existence.
Author : MARIA-LUIZA DUMITRU OANCEA,RAMONA MIHĂILĂ
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786061610372
The present volume insists on the policies derived from the social ideas generated by myths, the updating of myths as an arsenal of social pedagogy, on the ethnic condition of the relevance of myths, but also on the resumption by mass media of the pejorative sense of the myth. This volume is part of the scientific series “Mythology and Folklore”.
Author : Harold B. Segel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231114044
The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.
Author : Howard Clark
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0745315690
Lively account of how people power has shaped British history -- from Peterloo to the Poll tax and beyond.
Author : Ray Taras
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : WISC:89103495982
Is Europe indeed uniting or instead falling apart as a result of anti-immigrant prejudices, a massive Islamic influx, and ancient intra-European hatreds? This innovative and engaging book explores this key question by examining the national and religious phobias and prejudices, antipathies and sympathies, stereotypes and heterotypes of Europe west and east. Considering the sources of Europe's culture-based divide, Ray Taras argues that the idea of two "Europes" is grounded both in reality and myth. The accession process that brought a dozen new members into the European Union after 2004 highlighted the persisting gulf between "old" and "new" Europe. While many concrete borders between east and west were removed (commercial, legal, passport regimes), many remained (absence of a single Euro currency zone, labor market, and security community). Virtual borders too were invented or re-imagined: the postmaterialist, inclusionary, tolerant values supposedly found in old Europe versus the materialist, nationalistic, xenophobic ones of new Europe. After reviewing the two Europes' contrasting historical legacies, Taras examines the EU institutions designed to overcome the historical European divide. He considers the treaties, political rhetoric, citizen attitudes, and literary narratives of belonging and separation that both bind and fray the fabric of Europe. Throughout, this interdisciplinary work provides a comprehensive, hard-hitting, and unabashed review of how enlarged Europe embraces contrasting understandings of its political home and of who belongs and who does not.
Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106013831000
This text examines contemporary Albanian literature and culture from an outsider's perspective, bringing major Albanian literary works to a wide audience.
Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0814722148
In some senses, Albania is a living museum of the past. Originally a small herding community in the most inaccessible reaches of the Balkans, the presence of Albanians in southeastern Europe has been documented for over a thousand years. Albanian traditional folk culture, which evolved over centuries of relative isolation, is surprisingly rich. Yet despite recent events this culture remains little known to the Western world. Due to the lasting effects of a half century of Stalinist dictatorship, very few individuals even in Albania know much about their own popular traditions. The Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture makes available for the first time a wealth of knowledge about Albanian popular belief and folk customs. Alphabetical entries shed light on blood feuding, figures of Albanian mythology, religious beliefs, communities, and sects, calendar feasts and rituals, and popular superstitions, as well as birth, marriage, and funeral customs, and sexual mores. This unique volume will stand as the standard reference work on the subject for years to come.
Author : Terrie M. Rooney
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787619949
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Charles Frazier Joshua Henkin Gabrielle Reeche Arthur Stringer
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors
ISBN : UOM:39015064382016
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015081569231
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography
ISBN : UOM:49015002849769
Author : Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers,Bernd Jürgen Fischer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0253215706
The contributors to this study critically de-construct Albanian myths and offer insights into Albanian history and politics. They conclude with contemporary Albanian critiques of the origins and functions of Albanian politics and ideologies.
