Between texts, languages, and cultures; a festschrift for Michael Henry Heim.

9780893573607

Between texts, languages, and cultures; a festschrift for Michael Henry Heim.

Ed. by Craig Cravens et al.

Slavica Publishers

2008

332 pages

$29.95

Paperback

PG4026

Heim is honored by his UCLA colleagues and others for his contributions to Czech studies and translations of works by Capek, Kundera, Havel, et al. Cravens (Slavic and Eurasian Studies, U. of Texas at Austin) introduces Heim's contributions to the areas of the teaching of Czech language and culture, study of Czech as a heritage language in the US, Czech literature and its cultural contexts, and translation studies in general. The 31 essays include a "Czech Texan" writing about her ethnolinguistic identities, and an analysis of B. Hrabal's short story Kafkarna (which really means more than "Kafkaesque").

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