Between Texts, Languages and Cultures: A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim

by Craig Cravens, Masako U. Fidler (Editor)

Heim is honored by his UCLA colleagues and others for his contributions to Czech studies and translations of works by Capek, Kundera, Havel, et al. Cravens (Slavic and Eurasian Studies, U. of Texas at Austin) introduces Heim's contributions to the areas of the teaching of Czech language and culture, study of Czech as a heritage language in the US, Czech literature and its cultural contexts, and translation studies in general. The 31 essays include a Czech Texan writing about her ethnolinguistic identities, and an analysis of B. Hrabal's short story Kafkárna (which really means more than Kafkaesque ). Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Craig Cravens is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies in The University of Texas at Austin. He has been teaching Czech language and culture there for over 10 years, where he holds the position of Senior Lecturer and Founder of the North American Cimrman Association.

In 2006 he published the widely ignored The Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic. The Austrian Cimrmanologist Dr. Erich Fiedler has described it as a “vade mecum for all those tourists swarming the Charles Bridge and Prague brothels.”

Craig has a PhD in Slavic languages and literature from Princeton University (1998) and a BA from Amherst College in Russian literature (1992).

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