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Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol’ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisée – the history of translations, transformations, and migrations – that conditioned its relationship with the West.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union). --- Mikhail Bakhtin. --- Russian formalism. --- Structuralism and Semiotics. --- Yuri Lotman.

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Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient. Too many patients are left unhappy with how they are treated, and too many medical professionals feel estranged from the calling that drew them to medicine. Arthur W. Frank tells the stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who are restoring generosity to medicine-generosity toward others and to themselves. The Renewal of Generosity evokes medicine as the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and surgeries. Frank calls upon the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to reflect on stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who transform demoralized medicine into caring relationships. He presents their stories as a source of consolation for both ill and professional alike and as an impetus to changing medical systems. Frank shows how generosity is being renewed through dialogue that is more than the exchange of information. Dialogue is an ethic and an ideal for people on both sides of the medical encounter who want to offer more to those they meet and who want their own lives enriched in the process. The Renewal of Generosity views illness and medical work with grace and compassion, making an invaluable contribution to expanding our vision of suffering and healing.

Physician and patient. --- Generosity. --- care ethics, empathy, generosity, healthcare, bedside manner, medicine, illness, disease, treatment, sociology, philosophy, medical professionals, marcus aurelius, emmanuel levinas, mikhail bakhtin, suffering, healing, physician-patient relations, nursing, health sciences, psychology, doctors, pain, communication, patients.

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Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Paul de Man, Karl Mannheim, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jürgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha.

Community in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Space and time in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Russian fiction --- Comparative literature --- Utopias in literature. --- American fiction --- Utopian literature --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Community in literature --- History and criticism. --- Russian and American. --- American and Russian. --- More, Thomas, --- Orwell, George, --- Orwell, George. --- Orwell, George --- Orwell, Georg --- Āravēla, Jorja --- Blair, Eric Arthur --- Oruel, G., --- Oravēla, Jyorja --- Orvel, Džordž --- Orṿel, G'org' --- Oruell, Dzhordzh --- Oruel, Dzhordzh --- Ārvel, Jārji --- Ōweru, Jōji --- Ūrvil, Jurj --- Jārj Ārvil --- אורוול, גורג, --- אורוול, ג׳ורג׳ --- אורול, ג׳ורג׳, --- اورويل، جورج --- 奥威尔乔治, --- آرول، جارج، --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nationalism in literature --- Space and time in literature --- Utopias in literature --- History and criticism --- American and Russian --- Russian and American --- Communities in literature. --- 16th century. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- criticism. --- critique. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- ernst bloch. --- gilles deleuze. --- henri lefebvre. --- homi bhabha. --- jurgen habermas. --- karl mannheim. --- literary criticism. --- literary history. --- literary. --- louis marin. --- martin heidegger. --- mikhail bakhtin. --- modernity. --- nation state. --- paul de man. --- philosophical. --- philosophy. --- political. --- politics. --- slavoj zizek. --- social history. --- social studies. --- social theory. --- thomas more. --- utopian narrative. --- utopian theory. --- utopian. --- utopianism. --- walter benjamin.