In:History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries
Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XX] 2006
► pp. v–vii
Published online: 13 September 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xx.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xx.toc
Table of contents
Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgementsxi
Note on Documentation and Translation
Table of contents, Volume I
In preparation
Introduction: Mapping the Literary Interfaces of East-Central Europe
CITIES AS SITES OF HYBRID LITERARY IDENTITY AND MULTICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Introduction: Representing East-Central Europe’s Marginocentric Cities
Vilnius/Wilno/Vilna: the Myth of Division and the Myth of Connection
The Tartu/Tallinn Dialectic in Estonian Letters and Culture
Monuments and the Literary Culture of Riga
Czernowitz/Cernăuti/Chernovtsy/Chernivtsi/Czerniowce: A Testing Ground for Pluralism
‘The City that Is No More, the City that Will Stand Forever’: Danzig/Gdańsk as Homeland in the Writings of Günter Grass, Paweł Huelle, and Stefan Chwin
On the Borders of Mighty Empires: Bucharest, City of Merging Paradigms
Literary Production in Marginocentric Cultural Node: The Case of Timişoara
Plovdiv: The Text of the City vs. the Texts of Literature
The Torn Soul of a City: Trieste as a Center of Polyphonic Culture and Literature
Topographies of Literary Culture in Budapest
Prague: Magnetic Fields or the Staging of the Avant-Garde
Cities in Ashkenaz: Sites of Identity, Cultural Production, Utopic or Dystopic Visions
2. REGIONAL SITES OF CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
Introduction: Literature in Multicultural Corridors and Regions
The Literary Cultures of the Danubian Corridor
Mapping the Danubian Literary Mosaic
Upstream and Downstream the Danube
The Intercultural Corridor of the ‘Other’ Danube
B. Regions as Cultural Interfaces
Transylvania’s Literary Cultures: Rivalry and Interaction
The Hybrid Soil of the Balkans: A Topography of Albanian Literature
Up and Down in Croatian Literary Geography: The Case of Krugovaši
Ashkenaz or the Jewish Cultural Presence in Central and Eastern Europe
Representing Transnational (Real or Imaginary) Regional Spaces
The Return of Pannonia as Imaginary Topos and Space of Homelessness
Jan Lam and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Galicia in the Historical Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Writers
Macedonia in Bulgarian Literature
Transformations of Imagined Landscapes: Istra and Šavrinija as Intercultural Narratives
3. THE LITERARY RECONSTRUCTION OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE’S IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: NATIVE TO DIASPORIC
Introduction: Crossing Geographic and Cultural Boundaries, Reinventing Literary Identities
Kafka, Švejk, and the Butcher’s Wife, or Postcommunism/ Postcolonialism and Central Europe
Tsarigrad/Istanbul/Constantinople and the Spatial Construction of Bulgarian National Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Paradoxical Renaissance Abroad: Ukrainian Émigré Literature, 1945–1950
Paris as a Constitutive East-Central European Topos: The Case of Polish and Romanian Literature
A Tragic One-Way Ticket to Universality: Bucharest — Paris — Auschwitz, or the Case of Benjamin Fundoianu
Works Cited
Index of East-Central European Names: Vol. 2
List of Contributors
