Despite the recent growth in university courses on European Studies and Cultural Studies, and notwithstanding increasing public concern about questions of natio

This collection of essays explores post-1989 Western perceptions of Eastern Europe and how these manifest themselves in cultural representations. It starts out

In gaining an instrumental part, becoming a fashion, the victimhood theme has drawn attention to its fascinatory and manipulative aspects, and has asked for a c

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an a

Despite the recent growth in university courses on European Studies and Cultural Studies, and notwithstanding increasing public concern about questions of natio