Fording The Stream Of Consciousness

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : TriQuarterly Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Authorship
ISBN : UCSC:32106011775902

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Fording the Stream of Consciousness by Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

Ironic, playful, and multilayered, winner of three major prizes for the best Yugoslav novel of 1988, this beguiling novel-about-a-novel is set at an international literary conference in Zagreb. It begins with the death of an anti-Franco poet who slips into the pool of the intercontinental Hotel and continues with a rapid and entertaining chain of events involving espionage, sexual intrigue, murder, and a good deal of one-upmanship among the assembled academics. In the style of David Lodge, the novel is filled with colorful characters and hilarious scenes; but amid the lighthearted action Ugresic provides a serious and doubly outsidered perspective on the differences between the worlds of Eastern Europe and the West. Through the eyes of her Yugoslav and Russian characters Ugresic expresses the incredulity that many in Eastern Europe felt at the Western tendency to romanticize the "communist" world; simultaneously, through her American character, she explodes many of the myths of the West in the minds of Eastern Europe. In addressing issues of mutual cultural misunderstanding without attempting to impose artificial solutions to the problems, Ugresic has produced a truly successful multicultural novel.

Author : Melvin J. Friedman
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047832477

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Stream of Consciousness by Melvin J. Friedman Pdf

Author : James M. Robertson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228021872

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Mediating Spaces by James M. Robertson Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, they pursued political sovereignty, economic development, and cultural modernization at a scale between the national and the global – from regional strategies of Balkan federalism to continental visions of European integration to the internationalist ambitions of the Non-Aligned Movement. In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s. Showcasing the ways in which socialists in Southeast Europe confronted the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization, the book frames the evolution of supranational politics as a response to the shifting dynamics of global economic and geopolitical competition. Arguing that literature was a crucial vehicle for imagining new communities beyond the nation, Robertson analyzes the manuscripts, journals, and personal correspondence of the literary left to excavate the cultural geographies that animated Yugoslav socialism and its supranational horizons. The book ultimately illuminates the innovative strategies of cultural development used by socialist writers to challenge global asymmetries of power and prestige. Mediating Spaces reveals the full significance of supranationalism in the history of socialist thought, recovering a key concern for an era of renewed geopolitical contestation in Eastern Europe.

Author : Ralph Jason Pred
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262264188

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Onflow by Ralph Jason Pred Pdf

Understanding consciousness by taking the stream of consciousness seriously; a general characterization of experience and a detailed description of experience from within, drawing on theories of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Searle, and Gerald Edelman. In Onflow, Ralph Pred supplies an account of the nature of consciousness that grapples with "the raw unverbalized stream of experience." Unlike other recent philosophical accounts of consciousness, Pred's analysis deals with the elusive and commonly neglected continuities in the stream of consciousness. Pred offers a general characterization and analysis of experience as well as a highly detailed interpretation of experience from within. Determined to make "conceptual contact" with the immediacy of actual experience, Pred carries forward the radical empiricism pioneered by William James (who coined the term "stream of consciousness") and draws on the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. To help readers apprehend the formation of conscious thoughts, the intertwining of perception and action, and the working of consciousness in onflowing experience, Pred applies methods of analysis developed in John Searle's theory of intentionality to James's views, thereby showing how intentional states are embedded in the stream of consciousness. Then, calling on Whitehead's treatment of lived moments as acts of experience, Pred provides an account of consciousness that at once deals with conscious thoughts as they emerge from and function in embodied, socialized experience and illustrates how language distorts our understanding of experience and subjectivity. Finally, he details striking parallels between this account and Gerald Edelman's biological theory of consciousness, and, in contrasting the two, argues for a revitalized version of the experiental monism originally formulated by James.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:958691384

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Stream of Consciousness (ELL). by Anonim Pdf

Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137330086

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Writing Postcommunism by D. Williams Pdf

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.

Author : Zsófia Lóránd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319782232

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The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia by Zsófia Lóránd Pdf

This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women’s emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique. This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing the major debates and arguments this milieu engaged in from the perspective of the history of political thought, intellectual history and cultural history. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, societies in and scholars of East Central Europe still struggle to sort out the effects of state socialism on gender relations in the region. What could tell us more about the subject than the ideas set out by the only organised and explicitly feminist opposition in the region, who, as academics, artists, writers and activists, criticised the regime and demanded change?

Author : Robert Stallaerts
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810873636

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Historical Dictionary of Croatia by Robert Stallaerts Pdf

The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Croatia relates the history of this country through a detailed chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

Author : Erwin Ray Steinberg
Publisher : [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002584634

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The Stream of Consciousness and Beyond in Ulysses by Erwin Ray Steinberg Pdf

Author : Brian James Baer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224378

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Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts by Brian James Baer Pdf

This volume presents Eastern Europe and Russia as a distinctive translation zone, despite significant internal differences in language, religion and history. The persistence of large multilingual empires, which produced bilingual and even polyglot readers, the shared experience of "belated modernity and the longstanding practice of repressive censorship produced an incredibly vibrant, profoundly politicized, and highly visible culture of translation throughout the region as a whole. The individual contributors to this volume examine diverse manifestations of this shared translation culture from the Romantic Age to the present day, revealing literary translation to be at times an embarrassing reminder of the region s cultural marginalization and reliance on the West and at other times a mode of resistance and a metaphor for cultural supercession. This volume demonstrates the relevance of this region to the current scholarship on alternative translation traditions and exposes some of the Western assumptions that have left the region underrepresented in the field of Translation Studies."

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442276208

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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason Pdf

The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Author : Pamela Chester,Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253330165

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Engendering Slavic Literatures by Pamela Chester,Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester Pdf

Engendering Slavic Literatures breaks new ground in its investigation of gender and feminist issues in Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian literary texts by both female and male writers. Drawing on psychoanalytic approaches, film theory, and lesbian and gender theory, the authors interrogate the received notions of Western gender studies to see which can be usefully applied to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Slavic literary works. Motherhood and the relationships of mothers and daughters; the myths of selfhood that shape the autobiographies of Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Lev Tolstoy; Polish Catholicism and sexuality; portrayals of landscape in verbal and visual art; and women writers' transgressive ventures into male bastions such as the love lyric and prose fiction are among the themes of this important and innovative volume.

Author : Vedrana Veličković
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137537928

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Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Vedrana Veličković Pdf

Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to the UK and Western Europe following the enlargement of the EU in the 21st century, the social and political changes after the fall of communism, and the Brexit vote. Exploring the recurring figures of Eastern Europeans as a new reservoir of cheap labour, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, films, and programmes, including Rose Tremain, John Lanchester, Marina Lewycka, Polly Courtney, Dubravka Ugrešić, Kapka Kassabova, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Mike Phillips, It’s a Free World, Gypo, Britain’s Hardest Workers, The Poles are Coming, and Czech Dream. Analyzing the treatment of Eastern Europeans as builders, fruit pickers, nannies, and victims of sex trafficking, and ways of resisting the stereotypes, this is an important intervention into debates about Europe, migration, and postcommunist transition to capitalism, as represented in multiple contemporary cultural texts.

Author : Len Platt,Sara Upstone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107042483

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Postmodern Literature and Race by Len Platt,Sara Upstone Pdf

Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.

Author : Peter I. Barta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135920487

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The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe by Peter I. Barta Pdf

The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new narratives about national, individual and European identities that have emerged in literature, theatre and other cultural media, investigates the impact of the re-unification of the continent on the mental landscape of Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe and Russia, and explores the new borders in the form of divisive nationalism that have reappeared since the disappearance of the Iron Curtain.