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Prague Sprung Notes and Voices from the New World

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ISBN-10: 0275945367

ISBN-13: 9780275945367

Edition: 1993

Authors: David Leviatin

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Based on a series of interviews, Leviatin presents the experiences of several generations of students and faculty members who studied and taught on the English Department of the oldest university in Central Europe, Charles University. The English Department is best known as the home of the Prague Linguistic Circle. By focusing on the university, and especially the English Department, Leviatin provides a detailed picture of the ways in which an institution and a community have been affected by war, occupation, ideology, and revolution. As the first book to provide detailed oral histories of the rise and fall of Czechoslovakian communism, it will be of interest to students of contemporary…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 8/30/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

DAVID LEVIATIN(Ph.D., Harvard) has taught American studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the University of Rhode Island, and Charles University in Prague. In addition to the publication of numerous articles, Leviatin is the author ofPrague Spring: Notes and Voices from the New World(1993) andFollowers of the Trail: Jewish Working-Class Radicals in America(1989). He is also a freelance photographer whose photos have appeared in several major publications including theNew York Times Magazine.

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