Kundera and Modernity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557536372)

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.

Author: Liisa Steinby
ISBN-10: 1557536376
ISBN-13: 9781557536372
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2013
Pages: 249
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d