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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date December 25, 2012
Pages 302
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780199368372
ISBN-10 0199368376
Dimensions 0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $24.50
Other format details university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780300073126
 
from Yale Univ Pr (June 16, 1998)
9780300073126 | details & prices | 254 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $48.00
About: Since the 1800s, the Balkans - the "Wild East" of Europe - have offered material for the literature and the entertainment industries in Western Europe and America.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780199368372 Book cover for 9780231704236 Book cover for 9781849042529
 
from Gardners Books (April 30, 2013)
9781849042529 | details & prices | 302 pages | 4.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $26.65
from Columbia Univ Pr (March 30, 2013)
9780231704236 | details & prices | 302 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $24.50
About: Published more than a decade ago, Inventing Ruritania has become a standard study of the West's attitude toward the Balkans -- the "Wild East" of Europe.
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from Oxford Univ Pr (December 25, 2012)
9780199368372 | details & prices | 302 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $24.50
About: First published in 1998, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence.

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