Bronislava Volková is a bilingual poet, semiotician, translator, collagist, essayist and Professor Emerita of Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, where she was a Director of the Czech Program at the Slavic Department for thirty years. She is a member of the Czech and American PEN Club. She went into exile in 1974, taught at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg and subsequently at Harvard University and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has published eleven books of existential and metaphysical poetry in Czech and seven bilingual editions illustrated with her own collages. She is also the author of two books on linguistic and literary semiotics, Emotive Signs in Language (John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1987) and A Feminist’s Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (Edwin Mellen Press, N.Y., 1997), as well as the leading co-author of a large anthology of Czech poetry translations, Up The Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry (with Clarice Cloutier, Slavica Publishers, 2008). Her scholarly publications include topics of Czech poetry, Czech popular culture, issues of exile, gender, implied author values and emotive signs. Her poetry has been translated into twelve languages and her selected poems appeared in book form in six of them. She has also received a number of literary and cultural awards.

“Forms of Exile ... presents a coherent framework for bringing all these authors together, and it does a critical service by shining a light on some lesser-known Central European writers such as Ladislav Fuks and Egon Hostovsky. One could easily envision a syllabus on Central European exilic literature being developed along the lines of this volume’s content.”— Ari Linden,  Journal of Modern Jewish Studies“In this book of essays [the author] creates an original and ingenious typology of the forms of exile. Her grasp of this phenomenon is unusually inventive, not only as a result of her long-term study, but also through personal experience of more than forty years of exile… It is a book that stimulates and inspires many thoughts and developments. It is appropriate not only for academic readers, but also for a general public interested in questions of exile. It could also be fruitfully used as a textbook in literature courses covering central European literature of the period.”— Věra Hoffmannová, Modern Language Review

• Table of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A General History of Concepts of Exile1. Exile as Expulsion and Wandering: Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig2. Exile as Aesthetic Revolt and an Inward Turn: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch)3. Exile as Social Renewal: Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau4. Exile as Resistance and a Moral Stance: Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler5. Exile as Gender Marginalization and the Independence of the Femme Fatale: Alma Mahler6. Exile as an Escape from Patriarchal Oppression: Franz Werfel7. Exile as Anxiety and Involuntary Memory: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz8. Exile as Doom and Revenge: Hermann Ungar9. Exile as a Loss of Identity: Saul Friedländer10. Exile as Abandonment: Peter Weiss 11. Exile as Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel12. Exile as Dehumanization: Primo Levi13. Exile as an Awakening of Consciousness: Jiří Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig14. Exile as a Feeling of Meaninglessness: Egon Hostovský15. Exile as Transformation and a Will to Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Simon WiesenthalConclusionBibliography

Bronislava Volková is a bilingual poet, semiotician, translator, collagist, essayist and Professor Emerita of Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, where she was a Director of the Czech Program at the Slavic Department for thirty years. She is a member of the Czech and American PEN Club. She went into exile in 1974, taught at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg and subsequently at Harvard University and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has published eleven books of existential and metaphysical poetry in Czech and seven bilingual editions illustrated with her own collages. She is also the author of two books on linguistic and literary semiotics, Emotive Signs in Language (John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1987) and A Feminist’s Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (Edwin Mellen Press, N.Y., 1997), as well as the leading co-author of a large anthology of Czech poetry translations, Up The Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry (with Clarice Cloutier, Slavica Publishers, 2008). Her scholarly publications include topics of Czech poetry, Czech popular culture, issues of exile, gender, implied author values and emotive signs. Her poetry has been translated into twelve languages and her selected poems appeared in book form in six of them. She has also received a number of literary and cultural awards.

“Forms of Exile ... presents a coherent framework for bringing all these authors together, and it does a critical service by shining a light on some lesser-known Central European writers such as Ladislav Fuks and Egon Hostovsky. One could easily envision a syllabus on Central European exilic literature being developed along the lines of this volume’s content.”— Ari Linden,  Journal of Modern Jewish Studies“In this book of essays [the author] creates an original and ingenious typology of the forms of exile. Her grasp of this phenomenon is unusually inventive, not only as a result of her long-term study, but also through personal experience of more than forty years of exile… It is a book that stimulates and inspires many thoughts and developments. It is appropriate not only for academic readers, but also for a general public interested in questions of exile. It could also be fruitfully used as a textbook in literature courses covering central European literature of the period.”— Věra Hoffmannová, Modern Language Review

• Table of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A General History of Concepts of Exile1. Exile as Expulsion and Wandering: Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig2. Exile as Aesthetic Revolt and an Inward Turn: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch)3. Exile as Social Renewal: Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau4. Exile as Resistance and a Moral Stance: Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler5. Exile as Gender Marginalization and the Independence of the Femme Fatale: Alma Mahler6. Exile as an Escape from Patriarchal Oppression: Franz Werfel7. Exile as Anxiety and Involuntary Memory: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz8. Exile as Doom and Revenge: Hermann Ungar9. Exile as a Loss of Identity: Saul Friedländer10. Exile as Abandonment: Peter Weiss 11. Exile as Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel12. Exile as Dehumanization: Primo Levi13. Exile as an Awakening of Consciousness: Jiří Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig14. Exile as a Feeling of Meaninglessness: Egon Hostovský15. Exile as Transformation and a Will to Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Simon WiesenthalConclusionBibliography

Bronislava Volková is a bilingual poet, semiotician, translator, collagist, essayist and Professor Emerita of Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, where she was a Director of the Czech Program at the Slavic Department for thirty years. She is a member of the Czech and American PEN Club. She went into exile in 1974, taught at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg and subsequently at Harvard University and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has published eleven books of existential and metaphysical poetry in Czech and seven bilingual editions illustrated with her own collages. She is also the author of two books on linguistic and literary semiotics, Emotive Signs in Language (John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1987) and A Feminist’s Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (Edwin Mellen Press, N.Y., 1997), as well as the leading co-author of a large anthology of Czech poetry translations, Up The Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry (with Clarice Cloutier, Slavica Publishers, 2008). Her scholarly publications include topics of Czech poetry, Czech popular culture, issues of exile, gender, implied author values and emotive signs. Her poetry has been translated into twelve languages and her selected poems appeared in book form in six of them. She has also received a number of literary and cultural awards.

“Forms of Exile ... presents a coherent framework for bringing all these authors together, and it does a critical service by shining a light on some lesser-known Central European writers such as Ladislav Fuks and Egon Hostovsky. One could easily envision a syllabus on Central European exilic literature being developed along the lines of this volume’s content.”— Ari Linden,  Journal of Modern Jewish Studies“In this book of essays [the author] creates an original and ingenious typology of the forms of exile. Her grasp of this phenomenon is unusually inventive, not only as a result of her long-term study, but also through personal experience of more than forty years of exile… It is a book that stimulates and inspires many thoughts and developments. It is appropriate not only for academic readers, but also for a general public interested in questions of exile. It could also be fruitfully used as a textbook in literature courses covering central European literature of the period.”— Věra Hoffmannová, Modern Language Review

• Table of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A General History of Concepts of Exile1. Exile as Expulsion and Wandering: Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig2. Exile as Aesthetic Revolt and an Inward Turn: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch)3. Exile as Social Renewal: Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau4. Exile as Resistance and a Moral Stance: Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler5. Exile as Gender Marginalization and the Independence of the Femme Fatale: Alma Mahler6. Exile as an Escape from Patriarchal Oppression: Franz Werfel7. Exile as Anxiety and Involuntary Memory: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz8. Exile as Doom and Revenge: Hermann Ungar9. Exile as a Loss of Identity: Saul Friedländer10. Exile as Abandonment: Peter Weiss 11. Exile as Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel12. Exile as Dehumanization: Primo Levi13. Exile as an Awakening of Consciousness: Jiří Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig14. Exile as a Feeling of Meaninglessness: Egon Hostovský15. Exile as Transformation and a Will to Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Simon WiesenthalConclusionBibliography