Title: A history of Slovak literature /
Authors: Petro, Peter.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Slovak literature History and criticism.
Abstract: In spite of its richness and long history, Slovak literature is one of the least-known Slavic literatures in the English-speaking world. Few translations of Slovak works exist and until now there has been no systematic English-language history of the field. A History of Slovak Literature provides an excellent introduction to this important but overlooked body of writing. Like Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian writing, Slovak literature transcended the merely literary to.
Contents: 1. Medieval Literature (800-1467) -- 2. The Renaissance (1467-1636) -- 3. Baroque (1636-1780) -- 4. Classicism (1780-1828) -- 5. Romanticism (1828-71) -- 6. Realism (1871-1918) -- 7. Modern Literature (1918-90).