Prague Palimpsest : Writing, Memory, and the City


Alfred. Thomas
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Chicago, Ill. : : University of Chicago Press, , c2010.
Omfang
1 online resource (222 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; A Note on Translations, Quotations, and Names; Introduction; 1. Women on the Verge of History: Libuše and the Foundational Legend of Prague; 2. Deviant Monsters and Wayward Women: The Prague Ghetto and the Legend of the Golem; 3. The Castle Hill Was Hidden: Franz Kafka and Czech Literature; 4. A Stranger in Prague: Writing and the Politics of Identity in Apollinaire, Nezval, and Camus; 5. Sailing to Bohemia: Utopia, Memory, and the Holocaust in Postwar Austrian and German Writing; Epilogue: Postmodern Prague?; Appendix: Translations of Poems about Prague; Bibliography. - Index. - A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten-from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city's foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde-Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memo
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Sjanger
Geografisk emneord
Praha : HUME03420
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ISBN
0226795403. - 9780226795409

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