Umfang:
1 online resource (490 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789042030503
Serie:
Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Ser.
Inhalt:
English Literature; Comparative Literature; East European Studies; Film Studies.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Facing the East of Europe in Its Western Isles: Charting Backgrounds, Questions and Perspectives -- East and West: Mirrorings -- Infinite Mirrorings: Russia and Eastern Europe as the West's "Other" -- Narratives of Desire - A Writer's Statement -- 'A glimpse behind the scenes', 'trying to capture the very soul of things Russian': Literary Representations of Intercultural East-West Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes -- From Bulgaria with Love and Hate: The Anxiety of the Distorting Mirror (A Writer's Perspective) -- Two Poems -- Our Names Long and Foreign -- The Travel Guide to the Country of Your Birth -- Journeys, Encounters, Cultural Translations -- To Russia with Love: Maurice Baring (1874-1945) -- A Russian Romance: 1930s British Writers as Wishful Participants in the Soviet Revolution -- From Euphoria to Disillusionment: Representations of Communism and the Soviet Union in Arthur Koestler's The Invisible Writing -- The Unfinished Revolution: Black Perceptions of Eastern Europe -- Looking Eastwards: Borders and Border-Crossing in the Work of Ken Smith -- A Play in One Act -- You Think You Know Me But You Don't -- Stereotypes: Staying Power and Subversion -- Balkanisms Old and New: The Discourse of Balkanism and Self-Othering in Vesna Goldsworthy's Chernobyl Strawberries and Inventing Ruritania -- A Troubled Union: Representations of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century Irish Protestant Literature -- 'The Russians could no longer be the heavies': From Russia with Love and the Cold War in the Bond Series -- 'Vulchanov! Volkov! Aaaaaaand Krum!': Joanne K. Rowling's "Eastern" Europe -- Between Dream and Nightmare: Representation of Eastern Diaspora in Eastern Promises.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789042030497
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789042030497
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
;
Osteuropabild
;
Künste
;
Konferenzschrift
URL:
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