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Prague palimpsest : writing, memory, and the city / Alfred Thomas.
LIBRA PN56.3.P73 T46 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Alfred, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish ghettos.
- Legends.
- Prague (Czech Republic)--In literature.
- Prague (Czech Republic).
- Legends--Czech Republic--Prague.
- Libuše (Legendary character).
- Jewish ghettos--Czech Republic--Legends.
- Golem.
- Czech Republic.
- Czech Republic--Prague.
- Genre:
- Legends.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Women on the verge of history: Libuše and the foundational legend of Prague
- Deviant monsters and wayward women: the Prague ghetto and the legend of the golem
- The castle hill was hidden: Franz Kafka and Czech literature
- A stranger in Prague: writing and the politics of identity in Apollinaire, Nezval, and Camus
- Sailing to Bohemia: utopia, memory, and the Holocaust in postwar Austrian and German literature
- Epilogue: Postmodern Prague?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226795409
- 0226795403
- OCLC:
- 499675385
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