Reviews for European Heritage of Rose Symbolism and Rose Metaphors in View of Rilke's Epitaph Rose

The average rating for European Heritage of Rose Symbolism and Rose Metaphors in View of Rilke's Epitaph Rose based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-06 00:00:00 Adolfo Monroe Definitely well researched and timely. Especially timely. The sections on schooling in Yugoslavia and the Serbo-Croatian language are especially well done. The portions on Njegos and Mestrovic are also good. The final chapter is perhaps too speculative and fantastic for some (I know scholars who were enraged by it when the book first came out), as it basically poses the question, "What lesson does the violent collapse of a federally organized, multicultural state offer to the U.S. (as a federally organized multicultural state)?" This was when "multiculturalism" was being talked about more, and also criticized more. (Remember timely.) Still interesting to compare and, mostly, contrast.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-03-30 00:00:00 Lenny Hayes Hayes While this short (80 pages) "Reader's Guide" to Henryk's Sienkiewicz' Trilogy, With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe is by no means essential to understanding or wading your way through the combined 3500 pages of Sienkiewicz's paean to Poland and her people, it is useful for understanding the general challenges of good translation and the author's own struggles with his original American translator. My only complaint is that I suspect each of the little sections could really have been expanded into much more deeply revealing essays. As it is, with the exception of The Art of Translation, they read as mere epilogues or perhaps prologues.