The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945

Harold B. Segel is professor emeritus of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945; Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative; Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Robots, and Automatons in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama; and Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich.Harold B. Segel is the author of a dozen books, including The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe (CUP, 2003), Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470 – 1543 (Cornell UP, 1989) and Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative (Johns Hopkins UP, 1998). He is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Literature at Columbia University.