Kundera and Modernity

by Liisa Steinby

While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557536376
• ISBN13: 9781557536372
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"