Literatur in Osteuropa

Literature is always influenced by the socio-political environment in which it is created. This makes the exemplary view all the more exciting: How has literature developed in Russia and Poland since the Enlightenment and Romanticism? As in Stalinism and the post-Soviet era? The study book gives a profound introduction to the literature of Eastern Europe in highlights: from Tolstoy to Bulgakow, from Mieckiewicz to Stefan Chwin. - Where is Eastern Europe? Mental mapping, Eastern European history and Slavic studies - Literatures exemplary: Russian and Polish literature in the context of national, Eastern and pan-European (relational) history - Literature and national identity formation: state and censorship, subversion and emancipation - Enlightenment from above, Romanticism and realism, modernity between aesthetic awakening and socialist realism, postmodernism and the new delight in fables - Orient.