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    Modern Spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels: An analysis of selected 21st century novels
    Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses
    Treading Paths: Lemko Literature in the Years 1848–1918
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    TRANSitions Series

    By Helena Duć-Fajfer, Dagmara Drewniak, Katarzyna Wąsala and

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    This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a nation and its writers' works do not exist in isolation from their history. Stressing migration and (inter)cultural dialogue, authors explore how the characters in the texts establish a sense of belonging both within the context of migrations and within the context of Lithuania since its independence. The final series of essays in this book discusses Lithuanian literature abroad that is in translation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherV&R Unipress
    Release dateMar 11, 2024
    Modern Spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels: An analysis of selected 21st century novels
    Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses
    Treading Paths: Lemko Literature in the Years 1848–1918

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      Treading Paths: Lemko Literature in the Years 1848–1918
      Treading Paths: Lemko Literature in the Years 1848–1918

      Treading Paths: Lemko Literature in the Years 1848–1918

      Helena Duć-Fajfer
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      The monograph is a presentation of the writings of the stateless people called Lemkos-Rusyns, from the earliest awareness of their own cultural and ethnic separateness until World War I. It contains information about the group and its culture, defines the concept of Lemko literature as a minority literature and describes the cultural situation of Lemkos in the 19th century. Ten chapters present the main genres and types of Lemko literature in the years 1848-1918. Literature is shown as one of the key cultural and identity discourses. Extensively quoted excerpts from texts reveal the linguistic reality and consciousness of the Lemko intelligentsia of the time. The monograph also outlines the developmental tendencies of Lemko literature over the successive stages of this community's history.

      The monograph is a presentation of the writings of the stateless people called Lemkos-Rusyns, from the earliest awareness of their own cultural and ethnic separateness until World War I. It contains information about the group and its culture, defines the concept of Lemko literature as a minority literature and describes the cultural situation of Lemkos in the 19th century. Ten chapters present the main genres and types of Lemko literature in the years 1848-1918. Literature is shown as one of the key cultural and identity discourses. Extensively quoted excerpts from texts reveal the linguistic reality and consciousness of the Lemko intelligentsia of the time. The monograph also outlines the developmental tendencies of Lemko literature over the successive stages of this community's history.

    • Modern Spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels: An analysis of selected 21st century novels
      Modern Spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels: An analysis of selected 21st century novels

      Modern Spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels: An analysis of selected 21st century novels

      Katarzyna Wąsala
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      One of the characteristic features of the linguistic situation of contemporary Iran is the coexistence of two standards of Modern Persian: the written and the spoken. While literature is generally composed in the written variety, the typically "spoken" forms are also to be found in the literary text. Modern spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels is a study of these. A scrutinous analysis of five carefully selected novels with methods drawing mostly from the register analysis seeks answers to questions such as: what features are characteristic to the spoken variety of language, how are they woven into the literary language, does the relationship between spoken and written registers change over time and how can this process affect the future development of Persian language?

      One of the characteristic features of the linguistic situation of contemporary Iran is the coexistence of two standards of Modern Persian: the written and the spoken. While literature is generally composed in the written variety, the typically "spoken" forms are also to be found in the literary text. Modern spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels is a study of these. A scrutinous analysis of five carefully selected novels with methods drawing mostly from the register analysis seeks answers to questions such as: what features are characteristic to the spoken variety of language, how are they woven into the literary language, does the relationship between spoken and written registers change over time and how can this process affect the future development of Persian language?

    • Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses
      Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses

      Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses

      Ryszard Bartnik
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      These contributions offer fundamental insights into how literary works address and reconceptualize issues of nationalism, groupism, belonging and denationalization in selected European contexts. Various critical perspectives are employed here to highlight modern social and political processes as registered and, to a certain extent, also fashioned by contemporary literary discourses. 'Reimagined communities' emerge from literary redescriptions of existing or imaginary sociopolitical configurations in several European states or regions. All the contributions share a heightened sensitivity to the individual as enmeshed in oppressive geopolitical circumstances. Thereby, literary expressions of how individuality is constrained by social pressures may offer inspiring blueprints for emancipation.

      These contributions offer fundamental insights into how literary works address and reconceptualize issues of nationalism, groupism, belonging and denationalization in selected European contexts. Various critical perspectives are employed here to highlight modern social and political processes as registered and, to a certain extent, also fashioned by contemporary literary discourses. 'Reimagined communities' emerge from literary redescriptions of existing or imaginary sociopolitical configurations in several European states or regions. All the contributions share a heightened sensitivity to the individual as enmeshed in oppressive geopolitical circumstances. Thereby, literary expressions of how individuality is constrained by social pressures may offer inspiring blueprints for emancipation.

    • (Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature
      (Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature

      (Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature

      Irena Ragaišienė
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      This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a nation and its writers' works do not exist in isolation from their history. Stressing migration and (inter)cultural dialogue, authors explore how the characters in the texts establish a sense of belonging both within the context of migrations and within the context of Lithuania since its independence. The final series of essays in this book discusses Lithuanian literature abroad that is in translation.

      This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a nation and its writers' works do not exist in isolation from their history. Stressing migration and (inter)cultural dialogue, authors explore how the characters in the texts establish a sense of belonging both within the context of migrations and within the context of Lithuania since its independence. The final series of essays in this book discusses Lithuanian literature abroad that is in translation.

    Author

    Helena Duć-Fajfer

    Dr hab. Helena Duć-Fajfer is a native Lemko literary scholar, art historian, poet. She is head of the Department of Russian Literature at the Jagiellonian University, Poland, and author of 250 scientific publications.

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