The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain by Brian K. Goodman (review)
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 102, Heft 2, S. 361-363
ISSN: 2222-4327
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In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 102, Heft 2, S. 361-363
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 65, Heft 3-4, S. 507-509
ISSN: 2375-2475
In: World literature studies: časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 127-130
ISSN: 1337-9690
In: World literature studies: časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 126-134
ISSN: 1337-9690
In: Southeastern Europe: L' Europe du sud-est, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 331-333
ISSN: 1876-3332
In: World literature studies: časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 85-102
ISSN: 1337-9690
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 63, Heft 3-4, S. 517-519
ISSN: 2375-2475
In: East European Jewish affairs, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 369-370
ISSN: 1743-971X
In: Comparative American studies: an international journal, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 74-88
ISSN: 1741-2676
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 60, Heft 10, S. 1827-1845
ISSN: 1465-3427
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 44, Heft 5, S. 735-749
ISSN: 1743-7881
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 60, Heft 10, S. 1827-1846
ISSN: 0966-8136
In: New perspectives on Turkey: NPT, Band 24, S. 83-104
ISSN: 1305-3299
One of the most significant developments in literary studies over the last twenty years has been the postcolonial discourse that emerged with Edward Said's groundbreaking Orientalism, which has been enormously beneficial in heightening awareness of a set of Western assumptions that had gone virtually unquestioned for centuries.One of Said's role models, whom he mentions in both Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism and discusses at greatest length in his essay "Secular Criticism," is Erich Auerbach, the Jewish-German scholar who wrote the literary history Mimesis during his exile in Istanbul. Auerbach's own explanation of his situation in exile occurs at the very end of Mimesis: "I may also mention that the book was written during the war and at Istanbul, where the libraries are not equipped for European studies …. On the other hand, it is quite possible that the book owes its existence to just this lack of a rich and specialized library" (Auerbach 1953, p. 557).