Communication and Problematic Integration: Milan Kundera's "Lost Letters" in "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.".

Babrow, Austin S.

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ERIC Number: EJ530455

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1995

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Communication and Problematic Integration: Milan Kundera's "Lost Letters" in "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting."

Babrow, Austin S.

Communication Monographs, v62 n4 p283-300 Dec 1995

Reviews problematic integration theory (concerned with the role of communication when communicators face ambiguity, ambivalence, or impossibility). Presents a case study of Milan Kundera's writing illuminating both the theory and this significant novel. Discusses the relevance of problematic integration theory to other approaches to the study of communication and identifies questions for future communication research. (SR)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Higher Education, Novels, Research Needs

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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