John Benjamins: Book details for History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe [CHLEL XX]

Editors’ Preface	ix–xi
Acknowledgements	xi
Note on Documentation and Translation	xiii–xiv
Table of contents, Volume I	xv–xviii
In preparation	xix–xxiv
Introduction: Mapping the Literary Interfaces of East-Central Europe Marcel Cornis-Pope	1–8
CITIES AS SITES OF HYBRID LITERARY IDENTITY AND MULTICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Introduction: Representing East-Central Europe’s Marginocentric Cities Marcel Cornis-Pope	9–11
Vilnius/Wilno/Vilna: the Myth of Division and the Myth of Connection Tomas Venclova	11–28
The Tartu/Tallinn Dialectic in Estonian Letters and Culture Tiina A. Kirss	28–39
Monuments and the Literary Culture of Riga Irina Novikova	39–57
Czernowitz/Cernăuti/Chernovtsy/Chernivtsi/Czerniowce: A Testing Ground for Pluralism Amy Colin	57–77
‘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 Katarzyna Jerzak	77–92
On the Borders of Mighty Empires: Bucharest, City of Merging Paradigms Monica Spiridon	93–105
Literary Production in Marginocentric Cultural Node: The Case of Timişoara Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer and Nicolae Harsanyi	105–124
Plovdiv: The Text of the City vs. the Texts of Literature Alexander Kiossev	124–145
The Torn Soul of a City: Trieste as a Center of Polyphonic Culture and Literature Anna Campanile	145–161
Topographies of Literary Culture in Budapest John Neubauer and Mihály Szegedy-Maszák	162–175
Prague: Magnetic Fields or the Staging of the Avant-Garde Veronika Ambros	176–182
Cities in Ashkenaz: Sites of Identity, Cultural Production, Utopic or Dystopic Visions Seth L. Wolitz, Brian Horowitz and Zilla Jane Goodman	182–212
2. REGIONAL SITES OF CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
Introduction: Literature in Multicultural Corridors and Regions Marcel Cornis-Pope	213–215
The Literary Cultures of the Danubian Corridor
Mapping the Danubian Literary Mosaic Marcel Cornis-Pope and Nikola Petković	217–224
Upstream and Downstream the Danube John Neubauer	225–232
The Intercultural Corridor of the ‘Other’ Danube Roxana M. Verona	232–243
B. Regions as Cultural Interfaces
Transylvania’s Literary Cultures: Rivalry and Interaction John Neubauer, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Sándor Kibédi-Varga and Nicolae Harsanyi	245–282
The Hybrid Soil of the Balkans: A Topography of Albanian Literature Robert Elsie	283–301
Up and Down in Croatian Literary Geography: The Case of Krugovaši Vladimir Biti	301–314
Ashkenaz or the Jewish Cultural Presence in Central and Eastern Europe Seth L. Wolitz	314–331
Representing Transnational (Real or Imaginary) Regional Spaces
The Return of Pannonia as Imaginary Topos and Space of Homelessness Guido Snel	333–343
Jan Lam and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Galicia in the Historical Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Writers Agnieszka Nance	344–356
Macedonia in Bulgarian Literature Inna Peleva	357–363
Transformations of Imagined Landscapes: Istra and Šavrinija as Intercultural Narratives Sabina Mihelj	364–373
3. THE LITERARY RECONSTRUCTION OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE’S IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: NATIVE TO DIASPORIC
Introduction: Crossing Geographic and Cultural Boundaries, Reinventing Literary Identities Marcel Cornis-Pope	375–376
Kafka, Švejk, and the Butcher’s Wife, or Postcommunism/ Postcolonialism and Central Europe Nikola Petković	376–390
Tsarigrad/Istanbul/Constantinople and the Spatial Construction of Bulgarian National Identity in the Nineteenth Century Boyko Penchev	390–413
Paradoxical Renaissance Abroad: Ukrainian Émigré Literature, 1945–1950 George G. Grabowicz	413–427
Paris as a Constitutive East-Central European Topos: The Case of Polish and Romanian Literature Monica Spiridon, Agnieszka Gutthy and Katarzyna Jerzak	428–443
A Tragic One-Way Ticket to Universality: Bucharest — Paris — Auschwitz, or the Case of Benjamin Fundoianu Florin Berindeanu	443–451
Works Cited	453–493
Index of East-Central European Names: Vol. 2	495–510
List of Contributors	511–512

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries

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