Literature and Politics in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Reception: An Authorial Experience....Pages 5-10
Literature as Criticism of Ideology in Contemporary Serbian Culture....Pages 11-16
Politics — Challenge and Temptation in Contemporary Serbian Literature....Pages 17-20
Sławomir Mrożek: Exile and the Loss of Mission....Pages 21-32
Postmodernism and its Histories: Representations of the Past in Contemporary Hungarian Fiction....Pages 33-46
Recent Prose of Hana Ponická and Ol’ga Feldeková: Dissident Autobiography and Aesopian Fiction....Pages 47-58
Milan Kundera’s Wisdom of Uncertainty and Other Categorical Imperatives: The Experience of the Contemporary Romanian Novel....Pages 59-73
The Dilemmas of the Modern Bulgarian Woman in Blaga Dimitrova’s novel Litze....Pages 74-82
Silk, Scissors, Garden, Ashes: The Autobiographical Writings of Irena Vrkljan and Danilo Kiš....Pages 83-92
Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna: The Poet as a Witness of History, and of Double National Allegiance....Pages 93-105
Ukrainian Avant-Garde Prose in the 1920s....Pages 106-116
Oppressed and Enlightened: Ukrainians under Austro-Hungarian Rule in Karl Emil Franzos’ Historical Novel Kampf ums Recht....Pages 117-124
F. D. Kniaźnin and the Polish Balloon....Pages 125-148
Karel Čapek and English Writers....Pages 149-165
Back Matter....Pages 167-169