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"Goldsworthy has done enough research to found an academic department ... Inventing Ruritania is a sober, thoughtful and perceptive examination of an entertainment industry." -- Washington Post "A wonderful study, which incisively analyzes Western stereotypes about the region."-- Carlin Romano, Chronicle of Higher Education "There is a rich literary vein to be mined here, and Goldsworthy has a nice critical eye." --Tony Judt, New Republic

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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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Product details

Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (December 25, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0199368376

ISBN-13: 978-0199368372

Product Dimensions:

8.5 x 0.7 x 5.6 inches

Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

1.0 out of 5 stars

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For a book that promises to give a certain degree of truth on the never-ending Balkan question this work fails miserably. The writer, who is (apparently) of serbo-croatian origin fails on many occasions to give true facts. To mention a few, in speaking about Byron toward the beginning of the book she states that he is now most remembered for his picture in his "Balkan" dress, when I'm sure she means "ALBANIAN" dress; in discussing her accounts of the two Balkan travel-writers Edith Durham and Rebecca West, the author is clearly being biased toward the later whose own sympathises were Yugoslavian. The author states in one particular sentence which struck as especially curious. She states: "...the recognition of a shared past which inspired Durham's lines might conceivably be compared to West's, even if Durham never paused longer than this to consider her own feelings about the Balkans. Any such attempt would have contradicted her endevour to be 'objective' and 'scholarly' in her descriptions. For West, the emotions are the introspection are as important as the act of travelling--they are, in fact, the essence of her journey." (181) One can undoubtedly recognize that West's sympathies for Yugoslavian/Serbian nation are being returned in kind by the author in this work. Perhaps Durham's increasing distaste for the Serbians, which she later came to coin as the "serb-varmint", have influenced the author's (of serb-croation origin) judgment on properly comparing the works of these two women in their proper light. Another instance of complete biased is at the beginning of this chpater when the author gives a background of both writers, and while mentioning (and undermining) the importance of Durham's works, she does not hold back from praising West's work.In conclusion, this work fails what it completely sets out to do. It promises to give a better view of the Balkans, but what it truly means is to give a better view of the Yugoslavia--be it Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro etc. I cannot claim to be much surprised that a Balkanese is unable to give an objective of the Balkans, because in the words of Edith Durham herself (and included in this work, pg 170) the Balkan people are: "like cats and dogs," and thus, to ask for an objective view of its history, from one of its children, is apparently asking too much!

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