This book of thirteen conversations introduces us to the life of an exceptional person—theatre critic, Germanist, and long-time chair of the Open Lithuania Fund board—Irena Veisaitė. The dialogue ...between Lithuanian historian Aurimas Švedas and a woman who reflects deeply on her experiences reveals both one individual’s historically dramatic life and the fate of Europe and Lithuania in the twentieth century. Through the complementary lenses of history and memory, we confront with Veisaitė the horrific events of the Holocaust, which brought about the end of the Lithuanian Jewish world. We also meet an array of world-class cultural figures, see fragments of legendary theatre performances, and hear meaningful words that were spoken or heard decades ago. This book’s interlocutors do not so much seek to answer the question “What was it like?" but instead repeatedly ask each other: “What, how, and why do we remember? What is the meaning of our experiences? How can history help us to live in the present and create the future? How do we learn to understand and forgive?" A series of Veisaitė’s texts, statements, and letters, presented at the end of the book suggest further ways of answering these questions.
In this examination of Solzhenitsyn and his work, Lee Congdon explores the consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian revolutionary movement. Beginning with a description of the ...post-revolutionary Russia into which Solzhenitsyn was born, Congdon addresses the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, the origins of the concentration camp system, the Bolsheviks' war on Christianity and the Russian Orthodox Church, Solzhenitsyn's arrest near the war's end, his time in the labor camps, his struggle with cancer, his exile and increasing alienation from the Western way of life, and his return home. He concludes with a reminder of Solzhenitsyn's warning to the West—that it was on a path parallel to that which Russia had followed into the abyss.
I must first express my heartfelt thanks to Susanne Herrmann-Sinai and Christoph Schuringa for convening this debate. I also owe a special debt of gratitude to the four commentators for generously ...taking the time to read and think about my book, and for their thought-provoking and challenging comments. I have responded to as many of the latter as I could, and I look forward to hearing or reading, on other occasions, further comments on my responses.1
In this volume, editors Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini take a decidedly different approach to the analysis of Gulf cities to show that what is happening in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar is ...not so abnormal and is more indicative of emerging trends in urbanization than what first meets the eye. Organized under four thematic sections, the volume brings together a wide-array of essays, generated by a diverse group of scholars from a numerous disciplines including architecture, architectural history, urban planning, area studies, political science, sociology, geography, and art. Taking cues from Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour’s well-known book, Learning from Las Vegas (1972), this volume situates Gulf cities within the transnational contexts of colonialism, globalization, neo-liberalism, and emergent trends of human and capital migration.
Kotin discusses The Pound Era of Hugh Kenner. The book is not about modernism. The Pound Era is important because of the account of poetry, the close readings, and the commitment to definition, ...distinction, explanation. Holding up The Pound Era as a model for critics is like holding up Ulysses as a model for novelists. The book is too virtuosic, too idiosyncratic--too good.
Revisión de las investigaciones sobre el crítico e historiador de arte alemán Paul Westheim (1886-1963) y propuesta de una nueva lectura de su trabajo intelectual bajo la óptica de las redes del ...exilio. Para lograr lo anterior se reconstruyen las redes sociales que él conformó en su lugar de origen, especialmente aquellas que articuló en su ruta hacia el exilio en México.
Izenberg talks about Hugh Kenner and the visit as method. Most retrospectives on Kenner's career at some point mention the devoted thoroughness with which Kenner obeyed Ezra Pound's injunction: "You ...have an obligation to visit the great men of your own time." Kenner's life-long devotion to Modernism springs out of the 1948 visit with Pound at St. Elizabeth's in which the injunction was uttered--as does, perhaps, his magnum opus, The Pound Era. Indeed, Kenner seems to have elevated the visit into something like a method. Not without cause, Kenner's Modernism has been understood as a celebration of the great man theory of modernism, of an artistic era shaped by close-up encounters with powerful imaginations and their consequential doings.
Rad donosi analitički prikaz sudbine izabranih hrvatskih književnih kritičara/pisaca (V. Nikolić, A. Bonifačić, A. Barac…) koji su pisali kritike i eseje za postojanja Nezavisne Države Hrvatske ...(1941-1945). Nakon završetka Drugog svjetskog rata dolazi do osnutka komunističke Jugoslavije te zabrane objavljivanja, uz istodobno prešućivanja i zaborav hrvatske književnosti napisane za NDH. S druge strane, nakon raspada Jugoslavije 1991. i domovinskog rata u Hrvatskoj dolazi do rehabilitacije pojedinih tema, pisaca i njihovih djela koja su bila zabranjena i izložena trajnom zaboravu za vrijeme socijalističkog političkog sistema. Temeljno uporište ovoga rada je pokušati ponuditi odgovor na pitanje: kako i u kolikoj mjeri ideologija i politička diktatura jednoga razdoblja može utjecati na recepciju književnih i kulturnih vrijednosti nastalih za vrijeme drukčijeg ideološkog i političkog sistema.
Oblivion and Ideology. On the Reception and Fate of Croatian Literary Critics Publishing in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945)
The paper provides an analytical account of the fate of selected Croatian literary critics/writers (V. Nikolić, A. Bonifačić, A. Barac...) who wrote reviews and essays in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945). After the end of the Second World War, communist Yugoslavia was founded and the publication was banned, and Croatian literature written in the NDH fell into oblivion. On the other hand, after the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 and the civil war in Croatia, there is a rehabilitation of certain topics, writers and their works that were banned and faced the risk of oblivion during the socialist political system. The fundamental basis of this work is to try to answer the question: how the ideology and political dictatorship of one period can influence the reception of literary and cultural values created during a different ideological and political system.
