History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe
Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries
Volume I
Editors
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National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, which covers the last two hundred years, reconceptualizes these literary traditions by de-emphasizing the national myths and by highlighting analogies and points of contact, as well as hybrid and marginal phenomena that traditional national histories have ignored or deliberately suppressed. The four volumes of the History configure the literatures from five angles: (1) key political events, (2) literary periods and genres, (3) cities and regions, (4) literary institutions, and (5) real and imaginary figures. The first volume, which includes the first two of these dimensions, is a collaborative effort of more than fifty contributors from Eastern and Western Europe, the US, and Canada.The four volumes of the History comprise the first volume in the new subseries on Literary Cultures.
This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer.literarycultures.pdf
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XIX] 2004. xx, 647 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 September 2006
Published online on 4 September 2006
© John Benjamins B.V. / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée
Table of Contents
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Editors’ Preface | pp. xi–xii
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Preface by the General Editor of the Literary History Project | pp. xiii–xvi
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Note on Documentation and Translation | pp. xvii–xviii
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In Preparation | pp. xix–xx
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General introductionMarcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer | pp. 1–18
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Geography and bordersPaul Robert Magocsi | pp. 19–30
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Part I: Nodes of political time | pp. 33–38
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1989 | p. 39
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From resistance to reformulationMarcel Cornis-Pope | pp. 39–51
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1989 in Poland: Continuity and CaesuraWłodimierz Bolecki | pp. 51–54
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Reversals of the postmodern and the late Soviet simulacrum in the Baltic Countries — with exemplifications from Estonian literatureEpp Annus and Robert Hughes | pp. 54–65
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Models of literary and cultural identity on the margins of (post)modernity: The case of pre-1989 RomaniaMonica Spiridon | pp. 65–70
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Quoting instead of living: Postmodern literature before and after the changes in East-Central EuropePéter Krasztev | pp. 70–82
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1956/1968 | p. 83
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Revolt, suppression, and liberalization in Post-Stalinist East-Central EuropeMarcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer | pp. 83–105
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1948 | p. 107
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Introduction: The Culture of Revolutionary TerrorTomislav Z. Longinović, Dagmar Roberts, Tomas Venclova and Marcel Cornis-Pope | pp. 107–111
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Romanian literature under StalinismLetiţia Guran and Alexandru Ştefan | pp. 112–124
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The retraumatization of the 1948 communist purges in Yugoslav literary cultureRenata Jambrešić Kirin | pp. 124–132
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Heritage and inheritors: The literary canon in totalitarian BulgariaAlexander Kiossev | pp. 132–141
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1945Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer | pp. 143–176
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1918 | p. 177
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OverviewJohn Neubauer | pp. 177–191
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Women writers and the war experience: 1918 as transitionMargaret R. Higonnet | pp. 191–202
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The footsteps of Gavrilo Princip: The 1914 Sarajevo assault in fiction, history, and three monumentsGuido Snel | pp. 202–216
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Beyond Vienna 1900: Habsburg identities in Central EuropeKatherine Arens | pp. 216–228
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The Great War as a monstrous carnival: Jaroslav Hašek’s ŠvejkVeronika Ambros | pp. 228–236
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Polish literature of World War I: Consciousness of a breakthroughDorota Kielak | pp. 236–239
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1867/1878/1881John Neubauer | pp. 241–261
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1848John Neubauer | pp. 263–291
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1776/1789 | p. 293
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IntroductionJohn Neubauer | pp. 293–294
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The spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian declarations of philosophical independenceLarry Wolff | pp. 294–306
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The cultural legacy of empires in Eastern EuropeSvetlana Slapšak | pp. 307–311
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The Jacobin Movement in Hungary (1792–95)Vilmos Voigt | pp. 311–313
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1789 and Bulgarian CultureInna Peleva | pp. 313–315
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Part II: Histories of literary form | pp. 315–317
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Shifting periods and trends | p. 321
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Between Classicism and Romanticism: The year 1820 in Polish literatureRoman Koropeckyj | pp. 325–332
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From modernization to modernist literaturePéter Krasztev | pp. 332–348
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Czech DecadenceRobert B. Pynsent | pp. 348–363
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The Avant-garde in East-Central European literatureEndre Bojtar | pp. 364–373
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Shifting genres | p. 375
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Literary reportage: Between and beyond art and factDiana Kuprel | pp. 375–385
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Gardens of the mind, places for doubt: Fictionalized autobiography in East-Central EuropeGuido Snel | pp. 386–400
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Subversion and self-assertion: The role of Kotliarevshchyna in Russian-Ukrainian literary relationsGeorge G. Grabowicz | pp. 401–408
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Poeticizing prose in Croatian and Serbian ModernismMiro Mašek | pp. 409–414
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Stanislav Vinaver: Subversion of, or intervention in literary history?Svetlana Slapšak | pp. 414–416
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The birth of modern literary theory in East-Central EuropeGalin Tihanov | pp. 416–424
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Polish poetry in the twentieth centuryArent van Nieukerken | pp. 424–435
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Polish-Jewish literature: An outlineMonika Adamczyk-Garbowska and Antony Polonsky | pp. 435–441
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Shifting perspectives and voices in the Romanian novelMarcel Cornis-Pope | pp. 441–455
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Forms of the Bulgarian novelBoyko Penchev | pp. 456–462
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The historical novel | p. 463
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IntroductionJohn Neubauer | pp. 463–467
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The Hungarian historical novel in regional contextSándor Hites | pp. 467–479
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Recent historical novels and historiographic metafiction in the BalkansJasmina Lukić | pp. 480–493
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The historical novel in Slovenian literatureIgor Grdina | pp. 493–499
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The search for a modern, problematizing historical consciousness: Romanian historical fiction and family cyclesMarcel Cornis-Pope | pp. 499–505
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The family novel in East-Central Europe: Illustrated with works by Isaac B. Singer and Włodzimierz OdojewskiZofia Mitosek | pp. 505–511
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Histories of multimedia constructions | p. 513
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IntroductionJohn Neubauer | p. 513
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National operas in East-Central EuropeJohn Neubauer | pp. 514–523
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East-Central European cinema and literary historyDina Iordanova | pp. 524–541
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The silent tale of fury: Stalinism in Yugoslav cinemaNevena Daković | pp. 541–548
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Central Europe’s catastrophes on film: The case of István SzabóKatherine Arens | pp. 548–558
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Works cited | pp. 559–622
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Index of East-Central-European Names: Volume 1 | pp. 623–643
“Die meisten Beiträge des ersten Bandes dieser Geschichte der literarischen Kulturen in Mittelosteuropa zeugen nicht nur von einer einheitlich abgestimmten methodisch-theoretischen Haltung der Autoren mehrerer Generationen, sondern auch von einer besonderen Sachkompetenz, wo der wissenschaftliche Diskurs die Informationsfülle mit einer tiefschürfenden Textlektüre zusammenfügt. Recht innovativ für eine Synthese dieser Art und die Artikel, die sich mit der Kunt multimedialer Kanäle (Oper und Film), sowie mit der ungewöhnlichen Verbreitung des Interesses für Literaturtheorie als eine ebenfalls überregionale Erscheinung beschäftigen. Auch wenn manche Fragen, wie die der ästhetischen Wertmaßstäbe in jener Ecke Europas, wo die als 'Provinzliteratur' geltende Heimatdichtung lange die Öffentlichket beherrscht hatte, oder sogar die einer Definition Mittelosteuropas noch keine endgültigen/überzeugenden Antworten finden, kann man doch wohl behaupten, daß gerade die ganze Reihe der Probleme, die hier aufgeworfen werden, dieses Werk als einen Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Qualität der internationalen Kooperation in der Literaturwissenschaft ausweist.”
Andrei Corbea, in Arcadia Vol. 40:2 (2005)
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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe is a significant and monumental venture. [...] These volumes represent a significant and unique addition to the field. Never before have so numerous and so varied essays on the literary cultures of East-Central Europe been available in the English language. [...] History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe is a trendsetter and launches a novel route into the subject, one which scholars will want to follow and explore in the future.”
Monika Baar, in Comparative Critical Studies, Vol. 4/3 (2007)
“[...] this series will be by far the most comprehensive treatment of East-Central European literary culture ever attempted. [...] it will serve as the standard library reference on the region's culture for years to come.”
Andrew Wachtel, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University, IL, USA, in Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 83,3 (2005)
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSB: Literary studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT000000: LITERARY CRITICISM / General