Table of contents
PREFACE
LIST OF VISUAL MATERIALSxiii
Part I. PUBLISHING AND CENSORSHIP
1. Publishing
The Cosmopolitanism of Moderní revue (1894–1925)63 The Uncompromising Standards of Nyugat (1908–1941)70 A Contest within Romanian Modernism: Sburătorul vs. Gândirea80 Krugovi: A Croatian Opening (1952–58)84 Underground Publishing in Estonia under Soviet Censorship86 Slovak Journals between Languages and against Censorship89 The National Role of the Albanian Literary Journals92 2. Censorship
The Laws and Practices of Censorship in Bohemia95 Censorship: A Case Study of Bohumil Hrabal’s Jarmilka101 Religious and Political Censorship in Slovakia111 The Introduction of Communist Censorship in Hungary 1945–49)114 Strategies against Censorship in Soviet Lithuania (1944–90)125 Getting Around Polish Censorship: 1968–89135 Censorship after Independence: the Case of Aleksander Pelēcis138 Part II. THEATER AS A LITERARY INSTITUTION
1. Professionalization and Institutionalization in the Service of a National Awakening
Building a(s) Theater: the Pesti Magyar Színház in 1837149 Slovenia: from Jesuit Performance to Opera153 Czech Theater: A Paradoxical Prop of the National Revival154 Slovakia: Theater Starts as an Amateur Endeavor158 Polish Drama Sustains Spiritual Unity in a Divided Country159 Lithuania: School, Court, and Clandestine Performances162 Politics and Artistic Autonomy in Estonian Theater163 Theater Speaks Many Languages in Romania166 From the Čitališta to the National Theater in Bulgaria167 2. Modernism: the Director Rules
The European Horizons of Stjepan Miletić173 Reform within: the Thália Társaság 1904–1908176 Modernist Inroads into Czech Theater178 Fuzzy Borderlines: the Čapeks’ Robots, Insects, Women, and Men183 The Interbellum Emancipation of the Slovak Stage189 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism Clash on the Romanian Stage191 Institutionalization and Innovation in the Bulgarian Theater192 Polish Modernist Drama196 Stage and Stage Design in Polish Modernist Theater199 Popular Amusement and Avant-garde in the Polish Cabaret203 The Stage in Independent Lithuania210 Kicking with Poetry: Female Trailblazers on the Latvian Stage211 The Ebbs and Flows of Modernist Energy in Estonian Theater213 Branko Gavella: The Director as Thinker215 3. Theater under Socialism
The Short Interlude of a Liberal Czech Theater221 Slovak Drama: Reconciling the Absurd with Socialism226 Communism and After in Romanian Theater227 Mandatory Socialist Models vs. Stylist Eclecticism on the Bulgarian Stage228 Enver-Hoxha Dictatorship Stifles Albanian Theater231 From Provincial Backwaters to Budapest and World Reputation234 After Witkacy and Gombrowicz: Faces of Postwar-Polish Drama238 Wyspiański’s Offsprings241 The Visual Richness of the Polish Stage243 Independence Brings International Recognition to Lithuanian Directors245 Estonian Theater Loosens the Soviet Straightjacket247 Ideological Critique and Moral Rectitude in Slovene Dramas250 Ingenious Dramatic Strategies Reach across the Yugoslav Theater Space257 Epilogue: After Socialism265 Part III. FORGING PRIMAL PASTS: THE USES OF FOLKLORE
Introduction: Folklore and National Awakening269 Levels of Institutionalization in Estonian Folklore285 Mythologizing Contemporary Baltic Consciousness290 National and International Traits in the Latvian Trickster Velns295 The Ideal of Folk Culture in the Literature of the Czech National Rebirth298 Folklore in the Making of Slovak Literature310 The Question of Folklore in Romanian Literary Culture314 The Heidenrösleinkrawall (The Row about the Wild Roses): an 1864 Debate on the Origins of Folk Ballads323 Folklore as a Means to Demonstrate a Nation’s Existence: The Bulgarian Case325 The Rediscovery of Folk Literature in Albania335 “Sons of Black Death”: The Semantics of Foreignness in Twentieth-Century Bulgarian and Macedonian Writings338 Part IV. LITERARY HISTORIES AND TEXTBOOKS
Shifting Ideologies in Estonia’s Literary Histories, Textbooks, and Anthologies355 Latvian Literary Histories and Textbooks359 Sorrows and Glories of a Nation’s Soul: Polish Literary Histories361 Nineteenth-Century Czech Literary History, National Revival, and the Forged Manuscripts366 Overcoming Czech and Hungarian Perspectives in Writing Slovak Literary Histories377 The Narrowing Scope of Hungarian Literary Histories384 The Career of Latecomers: Romanian Literary Histories392 Conceiving of a Croatian Literary Canon, 1900–50395 Serbia: the Widening Rift between Criticism and Literary Histories404 Albanian Literary History: A Communist Primeur409 National Identity and Textbooks of Literary History: the Case of Bulgaria411 Pitfalls in Writing a Regional Literary History of East-Central Europe419 WORKS CITED429
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List of Contributors491
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INDEX of East-Central European Names505
