History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries

Volume IV: Types and stereotypes

Editors

Marcel Cornis-Pope | Virginia Commonwealth University

John Neubauer | University of Amsterdam

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Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe approaches the region’s literatures from five complementary angles, focusing on literature’s participation in and reaction to key political events, literary periods and genres, the literatures of cities and sub-regions, literary institutions, and figures of representation. The main objective of the project is to challenge the self-enclosure of national literatures in traditional literary histories, to contextualize them in a regional perspective, and to recover individual works, writers, and minority literatures that national histories have marginalized or ignored.
Types and stereotypes brings together articles that rethink the figures of National Poets, figurations of the Family, Women, Outlaws, and Others, as well as figures of Trauma and Mediation. As in the previous three volumes, the historical and imaginary figures discussed here constantly change and readjust to new political and social conditions. An Epilogue complements the basic history, focusing on the contradictory transformations of East-Central European literary cultures after 1989. This volume will be of interest to the region’s literary historians, to students and teachers of comparative literature, to cultural historians, and to the general public interested in exploring the literatures of a rich and resourceful cultural region.

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, XXV] 2010. xi, 714 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 October 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxv

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. ix

List of illustrations | p. xi

General Introduction

John Neubauer and Marcel Cornis-Pope | pp. 1–9

Figures of national poets

Introduction

John Neubauer | pp. 11–18

Adam Mickiewicz as a Polish National Icon

Roman Koropeckyj | pp. 19–39

Petofi: Self-Fashioning, Consecration, Dismantling

John Neubauer | pp. 40–55

Mácha, the Czech National Poet

Robert B. Pynsent | pp. 56–85

Mihai Eminescu: The Foundational Truth of a Dual Lyre

Calin-Andrei Mihailescu | pp. 86–96

France Prešeren: A Conquest of the Slovene Parnassus

Marijan Dovic | pp. 97–109

Petar II Petrovic Njegoš: The Icon of the Poet with the Icon

Svetlana Slapšak | pp. 110–116

Hristo Botev and the Necessity of National Icons

Boyko Pencev | pp. 117–127

Bialik, Poet of the People

Dvir Abramovich | pp. 128–132

Figurations of the family

Introduction

John Neubauer | pp. 133–139

Family Trauma and Domestic Violence in Twentieth-Century Estonian Literature

Tiina Kirss | pp. 140–153

In Search of the Mother’s Voice: The Diary of Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja

Biljana Dojcinovic-Nešic | pp. 154–166

Daughter Figures in Latvian Women’s Autobiographical Writing of the 1990s

Sandra Mešková | pp. 167–175

Figuring the Motherland and Staging the Party Father in Bulgarian Literature

Inna Peleva and Joanna Spassova-Dikova | pp. 176–182

Gendering the Body of the Lithuanian Nation in Maironis’s Poetry

Arturas Tereskinas | pp. 183–192

František Palacký, the Father Figure of Czech Historiography and Nation Building

Tamás Berkes | pp. 193–210

Miloš Crnjanski’s Homecoming to a Migrating National Family

Miro Mašek | pp. 211–219

Figures of female identity

Introduction

Marcel Cornis-Pope, Robert B. Pynsent and John Neubauer | pp. 221–227

Women at the Foundation of Romanian Literary Culture: From Muse to Writing Agent

Marcel Cornis-Pope | pp. 229–240

Constructing a Woman Author within the Literary Canon: Aspazija and Anna Brigadere

Sandra Mešková | pp. 241–251

Gender and War in South Slavic Literatures

Jasmina Lukić | pp. 253–260

Women’s Memory and an Alternative Kosovo Myth

Svetlana Slapšak | pp. 261–269

Women’s Corpuses, Corpses or (Cultural) Bodies: The Example of Croatian Theater

Lada Cale Feldman | pp. 271–280

Berta Bojetu-Boeta’s Feminist Dystopias

Metka Zupancic | pp. 281–287

Figures of the Other

Introduction

John Neubauer | pp. 289–295

How Did the Golem Get to Prague?

John Neubauer | pp. 296–307

How Did the Golems (and Robots) Enter Stage and Screen and Leave Prague?

Veronika Ambros | pp. 308–320

Vámbéry, Stoker, and Dracula: Export of Anxiety from East to West

Péter Krasztev | pp. 321–332

Lasting Legacies: Vlad Ţepes and Dracula in Romanian National Discourse

Nárcisz Fejes | pp. 333–343

Czech Feminist Anti-Semitism: The Case of Bozena Benešová

Robert B. Pynsent | pp. 344–366

Figuring the Other in Nineteenth-Century Czech Literature: Gabriela Preissová and Bozena Viková-Kunetická

Iveta Jusová | pp. 367–377

Killing with Metaphors: Romani in the Literary Imagination of East-Central Europe

Mihaela Moscaliuc | pp. 378–390

Love, Magic, and Life: Gypsies in Yugoslav Cinema

Nevena Daković | pp. 391–401

The Alienated and Uprooted Tlushim

Dvir Abramovich | pp. 402–406

Figures of outlaws

The Rural Outlaws of East-Central Europe

Joep Leerssen, John Neubauer, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Dragan Klaić and Biljana Markovic | pp. 407–440

Juraj Jánošík

Ute Rassloff | pp. 441–456

Shifting Images of the Bulgarian Haiduti

Elka Agoston-Nikolova | pp. 457–460

Figures of trauma

Introduction

John Neubauer | pp. 461–462

Remembrances of the Past and the Present

Nevena Daković | pp. 463–477

‘Goli Otok’ Literature

Lado Kralj | pp. 478–483

Traumas of World War II: Polish and Hungarian Literature

Jolanta Jastrzebska | pp. 484–503

Performing Identity: Lithuanian Memoirs of Siberian Deportation and Exile

Jura Avizienis | pp. 504–514

Figures of mediation

Introduction

John Neubauer | pp. 515–520

Joseph Eötvös

Gábor Gángó | pp. 521–526

On the Ethnic Border: Images of Slovaks in the Writings of some Hungarian Modernists

Péter Hajdú | pp. 527–538

Two Regionalists of the Interwar Period: Józef Mackiewicz and Mária Berde

John Neubauer and Włodimierz Bolecki | pp. 539–548

Journeys to the Other Half of the Continent: British and Irish Accounts of the Carpatho-Danubian Region

Pia Brînzeu | pp. 549–560

Epilogue

East-Central European Literature after 1989

Marcel Cornis-Pope | pp. 561–630

Works cited | pp. 631–693

Index | pp. 695–705

List of Contributors to Volume 4 | pp. 707–708

Errata for volumes 1-3 | pp. 709–714

“This monumental history of ECE literary cultures is both an authoritative account of these cultures and an ingenious prod to their further investigation. It is composed of learned, erudite, and vastly informative essays of the highest standard, many of which make distinct contributions to scholarship and criticism. The idiosyncratic and even quirky dynamics of the literary cultures of East Central Europe receive their due, and serve as the organizing principles of these four volumes. The reader will find a large variety of approaches and styles, and will be grateful to the editors for insuring clarity of expression throughout. This history is both a work of reference and an endless source of discovery.”

Wlad Godzich, Distinguished Professor of General and Comparative Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz

“The editors of this volume, Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer have meticulously organized the collective comments and interactions of a broad cadré of international scholars thereby offering lucid and candid perspectives on key literary phenomena. Due to the consortium of international scholars contributing to these four volumes, we now have detailed insights into the extraordinary deprivations and remarkable achievements of this region.”

Fausto Bedoya, in Rampike Magazine, 20.2 (2011)

“H.L.C.E.C.E. successfully responds to and embraces emergent theoretical and practical approaches to writing literary history by recognizing the multiple complexities of voice that arose in Twentieth Century literature. [...] The editors of this volume, Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer have meticulously organized the collective comments and interactions of a broad cadré of international scholars thereby offering lucid and candid perspectives on key literary phenomena. Due to the consortium of international scholars contributing to these four volumes, we now have detailed insights into the extraordinary deprivations and remarkable achievements of this region. ”

Fausto Bedoya, Rampike Magazine, Volume 20, Number 1

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