Author: Horace G. Lunt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674378049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Harvard Slavic Studies
Author: Horace G. Lunt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674378049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674378049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Harvard Slavic Studies
Harvard Slavic Studies
Harvard Slavic Studies
Harvard Slavic Studies
Harvard Slavic Studies. Ed. : Horace G. Lunt. Vol. I, 1953
Author: Harvard university. Department of slavic languages and literatures (Cambridge, U.S.A.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Worlds of Dissent
Author: Jonathan Bolton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity tounderstand the texture of dissent in a closed society.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity tounderstand the texture of dissent in a closed society.
Harvard Slavic Studies
Harvard Slavic Studies ... Managing Editor: Horace G. Lunt, Etc
Author: Harvard University (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.). Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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