British literature and the Balkans : themes and contexts / / Andrew Hammond.
The manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. During the 1990's, the wars in the former Yugoslavia reactivated denigratory images of the region that many commentators perceived as a new, virulent...
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| Superior document: | Studia imagologica : Amsterdam studies on cultural identity ; 16 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studia imagologica ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Frontier Myths
- Typologies of the East
- Through Savage Europe
- Balkanism in Political Context
- An Inflexible Exile
- Women and War
- An Escape from Decadence
- Romantic Fiction
- The Red Threat
- Humanitarian Intervention
- Bibliography
- Index.