02691nam 2200553 a 450 991082634690332120230803032608.01-61249-247-9(CKB)3170000000060848(EBL)3119725(SSID)ssj0000875304(PQKBManifestationID)12327884(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000875304(PQKBWorkID)10890401(PQKB)11170311(MiAaPQ)EBC3119725(Au-PeEL)EBL3119725(CaPaEBR)ebr10678790(OCoLC)948927452(EXLCZ)99317000000006084820120806d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKundera and modernity[electronic resource] /Liisa SteinbyWest Lafayette, Ind. Purdue University Pressc20131 online resource (260 p.)Comparative cultural studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-55753-637-6 Includes bibliographical references and index."While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analyzing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinized in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies"--Provided by publisher.Comparative cultural studies.Modernism (Literature)EuropeExistentialism in literatureEuropeIntellectual life20th centuryModernism (Literature)Existentialism in literature.891.8/685409Steinby Liisa1604991MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826346903321Kundera and modernity3930005UNINA