European writers in exile / edited by Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hauhart, Robert C., 1950- editor.

Birkenstein, Jeff, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles' writings, European--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, European.

Authors, European--Foreign countries.

Authors, European.

Exiles in literature.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Authors, European--Psychology.

Foreign countries.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

"This collection of transnational, globalized European literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural, historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. The collection features essays on such major writers as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, and many others"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Epigraph

Acknowledgments

Preface: On the experience of exile / Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein.

1. Social exile in nineteenth century England / Charlotte Fiehn

2. Zola's English exile : the private pages of a public author / Katherine Ashley

3. "All Europe contributed" : Joseph Conrad's experience and representation of exile / Kelly C. MacPhail

4. Thomas Mann "an American?" from fascination to disillusionment : the Black swan as a literary account of Mann's exile experiences / Katarzyna Bałżewska

5. James Joyce, Dubliners, and exile / Jeff Birkenstein

6. Franz Kafka's exile of the mind / Robert C. Hauhart

7. Professor Pnin in exile : Nabokov and the liminal experience of the post-war émigré academic / Rowena Clarke

8. Specks in the city : Shklovsky and Nabokov in Berlin / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

9. Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss : the tradition of political thought and the modern age / Shmuel Lederman

10. Arthur Koestler's fictional self-reflections of exile / Andrea Gay Tyndall

11. In search of the doppelganger : homecoming from exile / Irina Golovacheva

12. Milan Kundera, the novel, and the problem of history / Liani Lochner

13. Norman Manea's exile between predicament and redemption / Brînduşa Nicolaescu

14. Lessons from exile : Eva Hoffman as theoretician and practitioner of otherness / Johannes Evelein

15. "Receive me kindly, stranger that I am" : W.G. Sebald's existential exile / Marion Rohrleitner

16. Transnational modes of exile in Caryl Phillips's narratives : or, what it feels like to be both of and not of / Svetlana Stefanova.

Index

About the editors and contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: European writers in exile.

ISBN:

9781498560238

1498560237

OCLC:

1035304365