Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination by Goldsworthy, Vesna

Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination

First published in 1998, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination achieved a rare combination of critical...
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Author: Vesna Goldsworthy
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Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination by Goldsworthy, Vesna

Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination

$60.03

Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination

$60.03
Author: Vesna Goldsworthy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
First published in 1998, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. It is now recognised as a key contribution to the study of Balkan and European identity. In this first paperback edition, Inventing Ruritania is just as topical in the context of Europe's current turmoil as it was when it first appeared.

Vesna Goldsworthy explores the origins of the ideas that underpin Western perceptions of the Balkans, the "Wild East" of Europe. European and Oriental at the same time, the Balkans are tantalisingly ambiguous: simultaneously attracting and repelling outsiders, an exciting alternative to the familiar ennui of the West, both completely different from "us" and exactly as "we" used to be. Writers and filmmakers in Western Europe and America have found in the peninsula a rich mine of images for literature and the movies. In her prodigiously researched but very readable volume, Goldsworthy shows how this lucrative exploitation of Balkan history and geography by the entertainment industry has affected attitudes toward the region. She considers the religious, national, and sexual taboos and fears projected onto Balkan lands, and discusses the political exploitation and media uses of the Balkan archetypes.

Author: Vesna Goldsworthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/25/2012
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199368372

About the Author
Vesna Goldsworthy is Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University and the author of several widely translated and award-winning volumes. Following Inventing Ruritania, she published a best-selling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries in 2005, which was serialized in The Times and read by Goldsworthy herself as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, and a Crashaw Prize winning poetry collection, The Angel of Salonika, one of The Times' Best Poetry Books of 2011.

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