Classical Albanian Literature

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515132769
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Albanian Literature written by Robert Elsie and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader presents the best of classical Albanian literature, from the end of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes the best-known works of the age, poetry in particular. After a sluggish start, Albanian literature flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. By the mid-1930s, it reached a zenith, when intellectual life in the country was finally on a sound footing. A modern literature had been created in Albania and the nation had come of age. Alas, it was a brief blossoming in the shadow of the apocalypse which loomed in the form of the Stalinist regime that seized power in 1944 and would snuff out all genuine literary production for decades to come.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781845110314
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albanian Literature written by Robert Elsie and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2005-07-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tender plant of Albanian literature grew in a rocky soil. It was late to evolve and its development, indeed its very existence, was threatened in many periods. "Albanian Literature: A Short History" tells the story of the survival and growth of Albanian creative writing beginning with the earliest thirteenth century texts of Theodor of Shkodra, tracing the development of the modern literature of Buzuku, Budi and Bogdani, the incorporation of the Muslim influences of Frakulla and Kycyku and continuing with the works of Cajupi and Kadare during the reign of King Zog and the Hoxha administration. A unique book that illuminates an under-researched subject, "Albanian Literature" is an essential reference guide for all those interested in Balkan cultures, in comparative literature and in European cultural history in general.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albanian Literature written by Robert Elsie and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544294094
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albanian Alphabets written by Robert Elsie and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hundred years between 1750 and 1850 were an age of astounding orthographic diversity in Albania. In this period, the Albanian language was put to writing in at least ten different alphabets - most certainly a record for European languages. This book introduces the diverse forms in which this old Balkan language was recorded, from the earliest documents to the beginning of the twentieth century. They consist of adaptations of the Latin, Greek, Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets and, what is even more interesting, a number of locally invented writing systems. Most of the latter alphabets have now been forgotten and are unknown, even to the Albanians themselves.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Writings from an Unbound Europ
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lightning from the Depths written by Robert Elsie and published by Writings from an Unbound Europ. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a people Have no poets And no poetry of their own For a National Anthology Then treachery and barking Will do the trick With these words, a challenge is laid down in this new volume of Albanian poetry. Albania, however, has a dynamic tradition of literature. Lightning from the Depths is the first English collection to present the full range of Albanian verse. Albanian literature has had many lives. The early Christian traditions disappeared as Islam and the Ottoman Empire took over. Muslim literature, too, withered when the nation strove to become an independent European country. The beginnings of a modern tradition were quashed by the Stalinists. All along this rocky path, poets have turned the political strife, poverty, and isolation their nation has often experienced into culture, both celebrating and questioning the society in which they live. Lightning from the Depths opens readers’ eyes to a new political and cultural world populated artists who can spin despair into poetry.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865164126
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of the Frontier Warriors written by Robert Elsie and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Epics of Gilgamesh, Homer, Vergil, Shahnameh, are sources of our knowledge of religious beliefs. This epic is a welcome introduction to the spiritual world of the Albanians as they fought the crusades. The "Songs of the Frontier Warrior is the first English-language translation ever made of Albanian epic verse. As the product of a little-known culture and a difficult, rarely studied language, the Albanian epic has tended to remain in the shadow of the Serbo-Croatian, or more properly, Bosnian epic, with which it has undeniable affinities. This translation may thus be regarded as an initial attempt to rectify the imbalance and to give scholars and the reading public in general an opportunity to delve into the exotic world of the northern Albanian tribes. The present bilingual edition offers a broad selection of the best known songs. Also included are an introduction, a glossaries of terms and sources, and a selective bibliography.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448137799
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Author : Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253341891
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albanian Identities written by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this study critically de-construct Albanian myths and offer insights into Albanian history and politics. They conclude with contemporary Albanian critiques of the origins and functions of Albanian politics and ideologies.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 031325186X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Albanian Literature written by Robert Elsie and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.

Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 161145994X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The File on H. written by Ismail Kadare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1930s, two Irish Americans travel to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as The Iliad and The Odyssey without ever putting pen to paper. The answer, they believe, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining habitat of the oral epic. But immediately upon their arrival, the scholars’ seemingly arcane research excites suspicion and puts them at the center of ethnic strife in the Balkans. Mistaken for foreign spies, they are placed under surveillance and are dogged by gossip and intrigue. It isn’t until a fierce-eyed monk from the Serbian side of the mountains makes his appearance that the scholars glimpse the full political import of their search for the key to the Homeric question.