Facing the East in the West : Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture

Pirker, Eva Ulrike [MitwirkendeR] ; Helff, Sissy [MitwirkendeR]

1st ed.

Englisch

Amsterdam : BRILL, 2010

2010

1 online resource (490 pages)

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Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789042030497

978-90-420-3050-3

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-420-3049-7 (Druckausgabe)

*Großbritannien / Osteuropabild / Künste

*Europe -- Foreign relations -- United States ; United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe

*Europe ; Foreign relations ; United States ; United States ; Foreign relations ; Europe ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: D1065.U5

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 820.935847000904;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: HG 430: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HG-HO Englische Literatur / HG Allgemeines und sämtliche Epochen / HG 250-HG 880 Literaturgeschichte / HG 420-HG 439 Stoff- und Motivgeschichte (mit Emblematik und Symbolik) / HG 430-HG 439 Einzelne Stoffe; Motive; Embleme / Natur; Landschaft; Völker; Orte

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: HM 1101: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HG-HO Englische Literatur / HM Frühes 20. Jahrhundert (1900 - ca.1950) / HM 1070-HM 4850 Literaturgeschichte / HM 1100-HM 1101 Stoff- und Motivgeschichte / Einzelne Stoffe und Motive

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: HN 1101: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HG-HO Englische Literatur / HN Die Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts seit 1945 / HN 1070-HN 9991 Literaturgeschichte / HN 1100-HN 1101 Stoff- und Motivgeschichte / Einzelne Stoffe und Motive

English Literature; Comparative Literature; East European Studies; Film Studies.

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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