简介:ItwouldnotbeanexaggerationtosaythatthecentraleventinthepoliticalhistoryofEuropeinthetwentiethcenturywastheunmakingofgreatempiresandthemakingofsuccessornationalstates.FromtheHohenzollernGermanEmpiretotheformerYugoslavia,almostallgreatmultinationalstatesofthecontinentroseandeventuallyfellintheaftermathoftheGreatWar,theSecondWorldWar,andtheColdWar.Amongallspectacularimperialcollapsesandsometimeseventheirrebuildingandre-collapse,theonce-for-allfalloftheHabsburgEmpirein1918,arelativelylightweightamongstrongEuropeanstates,appearnotespeciallysignificant.Butashistorianshaverecentlybegantorecognize,thepoliticalcultureoftheHabsburgEmpireinitslastyearsandthesuccessorstateshadexercisedadisproportionallylargeinfluenceonthemakingofmodernEuropeandtheworld.Amongtheimportantquestionsdiscussedinrecentliteraturearetheterritorialdisputesofnewnationstates,1thecultivationofscienceanddomesticlife,2politicsandideologyofliberalism,3andthemakingofmultinationalempire.4
简介:《怀念狼》在创作思路与文本风格上同作者以往的作品大不相同.这部小说的新意,最鲜明地表现在对非现实的、"虚"意因素的充满幻想和夸张的、恣肆任情的表达上.但魔幻性却是《怀念狼》最显眼的文本特征,是它的创新性和探索性的主要表现.在对魔幻性特征分析的基础上,探讨它与魔幻现实主义创作风格的差异与相似之处,进而深入触及文化的差异性和作者创作个性的话题,并借此唤起某些思考和启发.