Craig Cravens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Cravens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Cravens |
| SIGNATURE | CRAVENS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Translating Milan Kundera
Content Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Translation Chapter 3: Rewriting Chapter 4: Writing Chapter 5: Reception Chapter 6: Conclusion Bibliography
Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The Czech Republic is a red-hot European destination, and the charms of Slovakia are slowly being discovered by Westerners as well. The two countries share fundamental similarities in language and culture, but they never really managed to create a common national Czechoslovak identity, after being merged in 1918 when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. With the lifting of the Iron Curtain in 1989 through the Velvet Revolution and the final bre…
Karel Capek
Lyric and Narrative Consciousness in Eugene Onegin
An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Czech Fiction
Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandel’shtam
The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich
Faulty Consciousnesses
The present study is a formalist analysis of narrative consciousness as it emerges in the work of an author who not only rejects the label psychological novelist, but also claims never to have used the narrative technique referred to as internal monologue. This is not an attempt to refute Kundera's own conception of his work, but rather to demonstrate the way in which the author employs this psychological technique to create a non-psychological n…
The Strange Relationship of Stavrogin and Stepan Trofimovich as Told by Anton Lavrent'evich G-v
The first-person narrative form is notoriously problematic. Throughout the history of the novel, it has both repelled authors due to the obvious limitations imposed by its restriction to a single consciousness and attracted them because of the apparent veracity it imparts to psychological portrayal. In the most conscientiously constructed examples of the type, the first-person narrator is able to portray directly the thoughts of a single characte…
"The Perverted Ideal in Dostoevsky's "The Devils
The Devils (also translated as The Possessed) is one of the four major novels of the great nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. This book is the first full-length English-language study of The Devils to examine the novel as a unified whole. Its approach is based upon recognition of a central theme of Dostoevsky's thought: the human need of and search for an ideal transcending the needs and demands of one's own self. Such an ideal …
Models of Narrative
PART 1: LITERARY MODELS: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS - PART 2: TEMPORAL RELATIONS - Linear Perspectives (Dostoevsky and Tolstoy) - The Moment of Revelation: Epiphany in Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) - Memory as Duration: Love in the Time of Cholera (Garc'a M rquez) - PART 3: SPATIAL RELATIONS - Convergence in The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov) - Divergence in The Minister's Black Veil (Hawthorne) - The Figural Labyrinth in The General in His Labyrin…
Models of Narrative
PART 1: LITERARY MODELS: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS - PART 2: TEMPORAL RELATIONS - Linear Perspectives (Dostoevsky and Tolstoy) - The Moment of Revelation: Epiphany in Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) - Memory as Duration: Love in the Time of Cholera (Garc'a M rquez) - PART 3: SPATIAL RELATIONS - Convergence in The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov) - Divergence in The Minister's Black Veil (Hawthorne) - The Figural Labyrinth in The General in His Labyrin…
"The Perverted Ideal in Dostoevsky's "The Devils
The Devils (also translated as The Possessed) is one of the four major novels of the great nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. This book is the first full-length English-language study of The Devils to examine the novel as a unified whole. Its approach is based upon recognition of a central theme of Dostoevsky's thought: the human need of and search for an ideal transcending the needs and demands of one's own self. Such an ideal …
Faulty Consciousnesses
The present study is a formalist analysis of narrative consciousness as it emerges in the work of an author who not only rejects the label psychological novelist, but also claims never to have used the narrative technique referred to as internal monologue. This is not an attempt to refute Kundera's own conception of his work, but rather to demonstrate the way in which the author employs this psychological technique to create a non-psychological n…
The Strange Relationship of Stavrogin and Stepan Trofimovich as Told by Anton Lavrent'evich G-v
The first-person narrative form is notoriously problematic. Throughout the history of the novel, it has both repelled authors due to the obvious limitations imposed by its restriction to a single consciousness and attracted them because of the apparent veracity it imparts to psychological portrayal. In the most conscientiously constructed examples of the type, the first-person narrator is able to portray directly the thoughts of a single characte…
The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich
Lyric and Narrative Consciousness in Eugene Onegin
An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Czech Fiction
Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandel’shtam
Karel Capek
Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The Czech Republic is a red-hot European destination, and the charms of Slovakia are slowly being discovered by Westerners as well. The two countries share fundamental similarities in language and culture, but they never really managed to create a common national Czechoslovak identity, after being merged in 1918 when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. With the lifting of the Iron Curtain in 1989 through the Velvet Revolution and the final bre…
Translating Milan Kundera
Content Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Translation Chapter 3: Rewriting Chapter 4: Writing Chapter 5: Reception Chapter 6: Conclusion Bibliography
Art (11 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Consciousness (2 works)