Kundera and Modernity.
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TextSeries: Comparative Cultural StudiesPublisher: West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781612492476
- Kundera, Milan--Criticism and interpretation
- Modernism (Literature)--Europe
- Existentialism in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union). bisacsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh
- Europe--Intellectual life--20th century
- 891.8/685409
- PG5039.21.U6Z88 2013
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Kundera, a European Novelist -- Chapter Two: The Legacy of Cervantes -- Chapter Three: Falling Out of History -- Chapter Four: Unmasking, Thought, and Analysis in the Post-Proustian Novel -- Chapter Five: The Thematic Structure of Kundera's Novels -- Chapter Six: The Sentimental and the Authentic Self -- Chapter Seven: The Dangers of Forgetting and Laughter -- Chapter Eight: Hedonism, Aestheticism, and Love as Modes of Authentic Sense Giving -- Chapter Nine: Lightness and Death -- Chapter Ten: The End of Modernity, the End of the Novel? -- Works Cited -- Index.
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