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Author : Josef Škvorecký
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Engineer Of Human Souls written by Josef Škvorecký and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Czechs categories.
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Author : Simon Ings
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-01-25
Engineers Of Human Souls written by Simon Ings and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with History categories.
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Maurice Barrès, who first wielded the politics of identity. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the working class and Stalin's cheerleader. The Maoist Ding Ling, whose stories exculpated the regime that kept her imprisoned. All four nursed extravagant visions of the future, and believed they were vital to its realisation. Each was lured to the centre of political action. Each established a dangerous and damaging relationship with a notorious dictator. And when writers and rulers find a use for each other, the consequences can be shattering for us all. These stories - of courage and compromise, vanity and malevolence - speak urgently to the uncontrollable power of words.
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Author : Josef Škvorecký
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1984
The Engineer Of Human Souls written by Josef Škvorecký and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fiction categories.
"So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Author : Josef Škvorecký
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-01-01
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Author : Josef Skvorecky
language : en
Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
Release Date : 1993
The Engineer Of Human Souls written by Josef Skvorecky and has been published by Lester & Orpen Dennys this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Canada categories.
"So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Author : Barbara D. Leaming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Engineers Of Human Souls written by Barbara D. Leaming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Motion pictures categories.
Trends In Chinese Education
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Author : Chen Hongjie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Trends In Chinese Education written by Chen Hongjie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Education categories.
This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in China’s education system. Marketization, quality assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed, as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, the impact of globalization, and the influence of education on China’s economic growth. The book, which comprises contributions from many leading authorities, will be of great interest both to comparative education specialists, and also to all those interested in China’s rise and development.
Stalin S Library
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Author : Geoffrey Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Stalin S Library written by Geoffrey Roberts and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with History categories.
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin’s tumultuous life and politics. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin’s personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies—the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors—but detested their ideas even more.
The Cultural Origins Of The Socialist Realist Aesthetic 1890 1934
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Author : Irina Gutkin
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Cultural Origins Of The Socialist Realist Aesthetic 1890 1934 written by Irina Gutkin and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
The past fifteen years have seen an important shift in the way scholars look at socialist realism. Where it was seen as a straitjacket imposed by the Stalinist regime, it is now understood to be an aesthetic movement in its own right, one whose internal logic had to be understood if it was to be criticized. International specialists remain divided, however, over the provenance of Soviet aesthetic ideology, particularly over the role of the avant-garde in its emergence. In The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, Irina Gutkin brings together the best work written on the subject to argue that socialist realism encompassed a philosophical worldview that marked thinking in the USSR on all levels: political, social, and linguistic. Using a wealth of diverse cultural material, Gutkin traces the emergence of the central tenants of socialist realist theory from Symbolism and Futurism through the 1920s and 1930s.
Social Functions Of Literature
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Author : Paul Debreczeny
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Social Functions Of Literature written by Paul Debreczeny and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study of the effect of literature on readers, both as individuals and as members of social groups, focuses on Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, as a model for investigating the aesthetic and social functions of literature. The individual reader's response to the literary text is demonstrated in Part One through a broad range of memoirs, diaries, and correspondences in which Russian readers recorded their reactions to Pushkin. Among the reactions are testimonies that Pushkin's works helped readers form their personalities, provided cathartic relief in times of stress, and aided them in releasing their suppressed emotions. In his analysis, the author draws on various psychological approaches, from studies of perception through developmental psychology to psychoanalysis. Part Two exposes the extent to which individuals' aesthetic responses are conditioned by their social environment. Against the backdrop of Russian social history in the early nineteenth century, the author describes the dissemination of new aesthetic norms, notably the relations of the Russian literary elite to "lowbrow" and "middlebrow" groups. In this context, he analyzes a number of Pushkin imitations (with Pushkin's responses to them) and links Nikolai Gogol's development as a writer to the social groups surrounding Pushkin. Among the other topics discussed are the popularization of Pushkin on the stage and his inclusion in school textbooks and anthologies. The aura surrounding the personality of an author is the subject of Part Three, in which the author shows how Pushkin's death in a duel with a foreigner contributed to his emergence as a symbol of the Russian nation, and how deep-seated anxiety about national identity gave rise to the Pushkin myth and to the canonization of the poet as martyr. The author also describes how the combined effect of the widespread reading of Pushkin's work and his legend as martyr allowed him to remain Russia's main mythic figure despite the Soviet Union's attempts to supplant him with Lenin. Throughout the book, theoretical arguments are buttressed by close readings of Pushkin's works, especially The Prisoner of the Caucasus, Eugene Onegin, Poltava, Egyptian Nights, and several lyric poems.