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Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siaecle
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Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siaecle

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Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle
Book by Scott Spector; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--Czech Republic--Prague--History And Criticism, German Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Homes And Haunts--Czech Republic--Prague, Prague (Czech Republic)--Intellectual Life
...History and criticism. 3. German literature Jewish authors History and criticism. 4. Kafka, Franz, 1883 1924 Homes and haunts Czech Republic Prague. 5. Prague (Czech Republic) Intellectual life. I. Title. II. Series. pt3838.5...
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Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions
Book by Elizabeth Boa; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Authors, Austrian--20th Century--Correspondence, Gender Identity In Literature, Jews In Literature, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Correspondence, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Political And Social Views, Sex In Literature, Social Classes In Literature
...21-30, which relates Kafkas novels to modern history. 2 Stanley Corngold, Kafka: The Necessity...Questions of identity have been central in the literature on Kafka: interpretations of the work flow from...Politzer, by contrast, sees Kafka as neither a German, nor a Jew, nor a Czech and certainly not an Austrian . . .. 7 On...ed. , Franz Kafka: An Anthology of Marxist Criticism Hanover, 1981 , 15-21: 17. Despite the thaw marked by the Prague conference in 1963, official attitudes towards...philology. In the lack of political unity, German literature provided an anchor of identity in difference...imagination what was lacking in practice, and the German language, which transcended political divisions...particular. 36 But the German spoken in Prague was perceived as impoverished or hybrid, as...1964 , i. 157. 36 On Volkish literary history see Hartmut Gaul-Ferenschild, National-volkischkonservative...
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The Czech Republic: A Nation of Velvet
Book by Rick Fawn; Harwood Academic, 2000
Subjects: Czech Republic--Politics And Government--1993-
...for Social Change (London: Macmillan, 1996), p. 57. 7 Vaclav Klaus and Tomas Jezek, Social Criticism, False Liberalism, and Recent Changes in Czechoslovakia, East European Politics and Societies (Vol. 5, No...Leff, National Conflict, p. 138; and Josef Korbel, Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia: The Meaning of Its History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), p. 87. 10 Eugen Steiner, The Slovak Dilemma...University Press, 1973), 11 Leff, National Conflict, pp. 48-9. 12 J.W. Bruegel, The Germans in Pre-War Czechoslovakia, in V.S. Mamatey and Radomir Luza (eds), A History of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1948 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), pp. 184-5. 13 Alfred Cobban...Czechoslovakia (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980), pp. 195-201. 27 Francois Fejto, Le coup de Prague 1948 (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1976); Hubert Ripka, Czechoslovakia Enslaved: The Story of the Communist...V. Gollancz, 1950); Josef Korbel, The Communist Subversion of Czechoslovakia, 1938-1948 (Princeton: THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A NATION OF VELVET Princeton University Press, 1959); and Jon Bloomfield, Passive Revolution: Politics...
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Organizational Change in Post-Communist Europe: Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic
Book by Ed Clark, Anna Soulsby; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Management--Czech Republic, Organizational Change--Czech Republic
...micro details of the macroeconomic data. Thus, in the Czech Republic, the continuing low rate of national unemployment has...influenced by the structured context of economic systems and history, but this is itself shaped by the decisions taken at...Rationalization has been a continuing theme in the sociological literature since Webers classical works (e.g. Weber, 1964), and...legitimacy and compliance for institutional continuity. The history of state socialist Czechoslovakia, and of the whole...historical circumstances of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic indicate that the regime and its representatives at...
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Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation: Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Book by Simon Smith; Routledge Courzon, 2003
Subjects: Civil Society--Czech Republic, Civil Society--Czechoslovakia, Civil Society--Slovakia, Post-Communism--Czech Republic, Post-Communism--Czechoslovakia, Post-Communism--Slovakia
...democracy Rueschemeyer et al . 1992 . Indeed, in Czech history too the political forces representing rural and...Austria. A non-political politics would enable the Czech nation to develop within the substantial space allowed...terms the same could be said to apply in the Czech Republic where civil society has been conveniently defined...elections. Such a process had been eased in eastern Germany by importing a party system from the West. Effective...advocates of a more interventionist approach. Despite criticism from specialist opinion in the following months...the start of this chapter. He tried to give his criticisms academic weight, claiming that the notion of civil...that would have been unknown to practically all his Czech readers, referred to the notion of civil society as critical to the history of western political thought Seligman 1992:5...
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Environmental Contamination and World Trade Integration: The Case of the Czech Republic
Journal article by David E. Madeo; Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 26, 1995
Subjects: Czech Republic--Economic policy, International trade--Environmental aspects, Pollution--Economic aspects
...E. European Union Despite the long history of institutional development from the...power. Thus, the combination of a long history of inattention to FDI issues by the Commission...only infrequently in its quarter-century history, it nevertheless represents a central...
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From Final Depository to Memorial the History and Significance of the Jewish Museum in Prague
Journal article by Dirk Rupnow; European Judaism, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Jewish literature--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish museums--History, Jewish museums--Research, Prague, Czech Republic
...But how can it be possible, in Prague or anywhere in Europe after Auschwitz...up the complex and complicated history of how it came to be. Until 1989...explained by the antisemitism of the Czech communists, and since 1989, it...the war under the auspices of German authorities has remained relatively...tourists were presented with a history of the fascist crimes, but not...Synagogue memorial also only spoke of Czech Jews as victims, not as survivors. Later, and in the West, the Prague museum became an ideal starting...of having such a project under German auspices: Murderers are building...thus alter the extent of the German crime had become apparent, when...difficult relationship between history, on the one hand, and memory...collecting of artefacts is the Czech Memorial Scrolls Trust, one of...still be seen in the Museum in Prague, 1,564 Torah scrolls were amassed...
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The Cowards: Skvoreckys contributions to Czech humorist literature by Mila Saskova-Pierce In the Czech Republic Josef Skvorecky is famous for his role in helping Czech literature...prosper in exile, despite the stiff censorship of the post-Prague-Spring government. But this rebel of Czech literature also...
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Situating a German Self in Democratic Community: Greek Tragedy and German Identity in Christa Wolf's Mythic Works
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Subjects: German literature--Criticism and interpretation
...Dimension: Selected Essays, tr. Jan Heurck (New York, 1993), 275. (30.) Cassandra (1984), 238. (31.) For criticisms of Kassandra and Medea: Stimmen as ideologically-driven polemics see, respectively, Stephanie West, "Chrism Wolfs Kassandra: A Classical Perspective," Oxford German Studies 20/21 (1991/91): 164-85, and Glenn Most, "Eine Medea im Wolfspelz," Mythen in nachmythischer Zeit...characterizes as the fusion of a romantic impulse with a conservative cultural anthropology in East German literature in his book, Mythos als Sinnkonstruktion: Die Antikenprojekt von Christa Wolf, Heiner Muller, Stefan Schutz...Timothy Garton Ash, The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (New York, 1993), 11, 40, 54, 60, 158. (47.) Jorg Magenau, Christa Wolf: A Biographic (Berlin, 2002), 378-79...bear on the politics of his country as, for example, when he responded to an atmosphere of crisis in the Czech Republic at the end of 1997, by addressing the Czech Parliament and Senate in the following terms: "However unpleasant...
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...that the GDR had no right to join in the criticism of the Prague and Warsaw reforms, is made in fairly bad faith by all but...the issue, and the actual role of the GDR military in the Czech operation remains rather unclear. In summary, it appears...increase in prosperity that followed the sealing-off of the Republic was no "mid-life crisis", but a welcome relief, and that by...
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Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet? the Post-Communist Expat Safari Novel Has Its Day
Magazine article by Eliot Borenstein; The Nation, Vol. 276, February 3, 2003
Subjects: Beckman, John--Authorship, Beckman, John--Criticism and interpretation, Corrections (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Everything is Illuminated: A Novel (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Authorship, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Criticism and interpretation, Franzen, Jonathan--Authorship, Franzen, Jonathan--Criticism and interpretation, Greenberg, Paul--Authorship, Greenberg, Paul--Criticism and interpretation, Leaving Katya: A Novel (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Phillips, Arthur--Authorship, Phillips, Arthur--Criticism and interpretation, Post-Revolutionary Russian literature, Prague: A Novel (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Russian Debutante's Handbook: A Novel (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Winter Zoo: A Novel (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...readers that he is one step ahead of the game: Prague is a novel set in Budapest, and the plot never strays across Czech borders. The main character, John Price, is nagged by the sense that he has chosen the wrong venue for his European wanderings, that Prague is where the action really is. One suspects that John would be equally restless if he ever actually reached this...from a world in which nothing crucial is ever at stake, and now find themselves in a city where the burdens of history are felt on every street corner. Yet even though nearly all the characters are at times seduced by the romanticism...houses in Hungary. After 1956 this press split in two, as the heir to the family business, Imre Horvath, set up a German branch to preserve Hungarian culture from Communist philistinism. John uses his society column at BudapesToday...European countries, as Franzen does in The Corrections. Instead, Shteyngart creates an entire fictional country, the Republic of Stolovaya (Russian for "cafeteria"), whose chic but dilapidated capital, Prava, suggests a neutral territory...


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