Beyond the World of MenAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Tuesday 21 May 2024
Description
An inclusive collection of modern Czech short fiction that features overlooked women writers. Bringing together Czech fiction published by women between 1890 and 1910, Beyond the World of Men presents works that confront pivotal issues of the time, including the "woman question" and womens rights, class conflict, lesbian love, and the relationship between the aristocracy and the Czech peasantry (as in two stories originally written in German by the aristocrat Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach). The collection contains stories that are of literary merit, but also hold historical value. In these works, the authors offer trenchant social commentary while injecting both comic and sentimental elements into their writing, employing humanity and subtlety. As a whole, the collection suggests a revision of the critical understanding of Czech literary modernism; these writers represent voices that were not usually heard in the male writing of the period. They also demand evaluation in their differing (but constant) reactions to earlier womens writing in Czech and in other European languages, but particularly that of the central figure of Bozena Nemcová, to whose canonic novel Babicka they constantly return.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
03 Aug 2023
>>
€9.40
by
Paperback
01 Jun 2019
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€14.04
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
19 May 2023
Media studies
€140.39
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
01 Oct 2003
Retail and wholesale industries
€15.20
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews