Reading Václav Havel / / David S. Danaher.
As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres - poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and political speeches - he left behind a range of texts s...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Approaches to Reading Havel
- 1. The "restlessness of transcendence": Havel's Genres
- 2. Explaining and Understanding : The "Weirdness" of Havel's Plays
- 3. Understanding East and West: The World in Existential Crisis
- 4. "Metaphysical reconstruction": Translating Havel's Keywords
- Conclusion: Havel's Legacy as Appeal
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index