Rethinking Literary History -- Comparatively
OUTLINE
HISTORY of the LITERARY CULTURES IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE:
JUNCTURES and DISJUNCTURES
IN THE 19th and 20th CENTURIES
Status as of June 15, 2001; the items with single indent are submitted, the ones with double indent are expected; the titles are provisional, in several cases the national contributions will be integrated into a single, team-written essay EDITORS
Marcel Cornis-Pope and John NeubauerEDITORIAL BOARD
George Grabowicz, Alexander Kiossev, Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Svetlana Slapsak, Seth Wolitz
INTRODUCTION
Problems and Foundational Concepts
Part I
TEMPORAL NODES
INTRODUCTION
Alexander Kiossev, "Nodes vs. Periods: Alternative Temporal Structures"
- 1989
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, "Introduction: Literary and Cultural Reconstructions Before and After 1989"
- Epp Annus, "Reversals of the Postmodernism and Late Soviet Simulacrum"
- Katherine Arens, Austria in the Central European Imagination after 1989: "The Balkans Begin at the Gürtel"
- Karl E. Jirgens, "Psychic Dismemberment: Anti-Colonial Identities in Latvian Writing since 1990"
- Boyko Penchev, "Bulgarian Literature of the 90s"
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovak Literature 1989
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "Postmodernity and Postcommunism in Hungary"
- Arturas Tereskinas, "Threatening Bodies/Bodiless Nation: Erotics of National Disembodiment in Postcommunist Lithuania"
- Péter Krasztev, "Quoting Instead of Living: Postmodern Literature before and after the Changes in East Central Europe"
- Violeta Kelertas, "Lithuania before and after 1989"
- Guido Snell, "The 500th Anniversary of the Battle at Kosovsko Polje"
- 1968/1956
- Jolanta Jastrzebska, "The Importance of 1956 in Polish Culture"
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Hungary
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovak Literature 1968/1956
- Svetlana Slapsak, "1968: Reverberations of Protest in the East and West"
- Alfred Thomas, "Fiction and History: The significance of 1968 in Two Czech Novels"
- Boyko Penchev, "1956 in Bulgarian Culture: The Two Faces of Liberalisation"
- 1948
- Nevena Dakovic, "The Trauma of 1948 in Yugoslav and East European Films"
- Alexander Kiossev, "The Making of a Totalitarian Canon in Bulgaria"
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovakia 1945-1948
- Letitia Guran, "Romanian Literature under Stalinism"
- Tomas Venclova, "Lithuania around 1948"
- George Grabowicz, "The Ukranian Emigration of 1945-1948"
- Renata Jambresic-Kirin, Yugoslavia and Croatia
- 1945
- Mieczyslaw Dabrowski, "Literature of the Second World War in Poland"
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovakia 1945
- Marzena Sokolowska, "Polish Poetry on Warsaw during World War II"
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "Hungarian Literature After 1945: From Bourgeois Democracy to Communism"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "1945 - Yugoslav Authors"
- Thomas Venclova, "The Years 1937-1945 in Lithuania"
- Alexandru Stefan, "Cultural Policies in the Romananian Literary Field, 1944-1948"
- 1918
- Veronica Ambros, "The Great War as a Monstrous Carnival"
- Katherine Arens, "Beyond Vienna 1900: How the Gay Apocalypse Marginalizes Central Europe"
- Dorota Kielak, "Polish Literature of World War I: Consciousness of a Breakthrough"
- Sibila Petlevski, "Miroslav Krleza: Time for Polemics (1918/1919)"
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovakia 1918
- Guido Snel, "The Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip. A Dialogue of Architectural and Textual Representations of the 1914 Sarajevo Assault"
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, "Romanian Literature of World War I"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Imagining the New Democracies: on the Ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire"
- 1881/1878/1867
- Vladimir Biti & Nenad Ivic, "Ivan Mazuranic"
- Gábor Gango, "The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867"
- Albena Hranova and Nikolai Chernokozhev, "The Decade 1868-1878 in Bulgarian Literature"
- Ewa Paczoska, "Polish Literature 1863-1880: Historic Experiences and Artistic Search"
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovakia 1867-1881
- Thomas Venclova, "The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century in Lithuania"
- George Grabowicz, "Ukrainian developments"
- 1848
- Gábor Gango, "1848-1849 in Hungary"
- Inna Peleva, "Bulgarian Culture and Literature of the 1840s-1850s and '1848'"
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovakia 1848
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "Framing Texts as the Representations of National Character"
- Dimco Zupan, "Croatia in 1848"
- Mircea Anghelescu, "1848 in the Romanian principalities"
- George Grabowicz, "The Russian Reception of Ukranian Literature in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Europe and the Balkans: Censored Memories"
- 1789/1781/1776
- Inna Peleva, "Bulgarian Culture of the 18-19th centuries and '1789'"
- Dagmar Roberts, 1781/1789 in Slovakia
- Svetlana Slapsak, "The Cultural Legacy of Empires in Eastern Europe"
- Vilmos Voigt, "The Jacobin Movement in Hungary (1794-95)"
- Larry Wolff, "The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence"
Part II
TOPOGRAPHIES of LITERARY CULTURES
- IN SEARCH OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: DEFINING BOUNDARIES and CULTURAL IDENTITIES
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, "Introduction: Defining Boundaries and Cultural Identities in East Central Europe"
- Nikola Petkovic, "Kafka, Svejk, and the Butcher's Wife, or Postcommunism / Postcolonialism and Central Europe"
- Alexander Kiossev, "The Dialectic of Real and Imaginary Geographies as a Problem of East-Central European Literary History"
- CITIES AS SITES of HYBRID IDENTITY and POLYCULTURAL PRODUCTION
a) Literary and Cultural Production in the Metropols and Marginocentric Cities
- Veronika Ambros, "Prague: Magnetic Fields or Staging the Avant-Garde"
- Svetlana Boym, "Petersburg/Leningrad: Nostalgic Cosmopolitanism and Reinvention of Urban Memory"
- Anna Campanile, "The Torn Soul of a City: Trieste as a Center of Polyphonic Culture and Literature"
- Amy Colin, "Czernowitz - A Testing Ground For Pluralism"
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, "Literary and Cultural Production in Marginocentric Cities: the Case of Timisoara"
- Tiina A. Kirss, "The Tartu/Tallinn Dialectic as Generative Paradigm for Estonian Culture"
- Irina Novikova, "Isaiah Berlin's City: Monuments and Literary Culture of Riga"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Belgrade: A Liminal City"
- Monica Spiridon, "On the Borders of Mighty Empires: Bucharest, the City of Merging Paradigms"
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "Topography of Literary Cultures: Budapest Around 1900"
- Tomas Venclova, "Vilnius/Wilno/Vilna: the Myth of Division and the Myth of Connection"
- Seth L. Wolitz, Zilla Jane Goodman, Brian Horowitz, "Cities in Ashkenaz: Sites of Identity, Cultural Production, Utopic or Dystopic Visions"
- Svetlana Slapsak, B. Slapsak, P. Vodopivec, Drago Rotar, "'Illyrian' Ljubljana, a Gateway Community"
- Nevena Dakovic, "Sephardic Romances: From Spain to Belgrade"
b) Representations of Multicultural Cities: Monologic vs. Heteroglossic Discourses
- Alexander Kiossev, "Plovdiv: The Text of the City vs. the Text of Literature"
- Katarzyna Jerzak, "'The City that Is No More, the City that Will Stand Forever': Danzig/Gdansk as Homeland in the Writings of Günter Grass, Pawel Huelle, and Stefan Chwin"
- George G. Grabowicz, "Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg: Mythical Refractions of a Contested City"
- Christine Ivanovic, "Multilingual Representations of Prague"
- REGIONAL SITES of CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
a) Multicultural Corridors and Transnational (Real or Imaginary) Spaces
- Nikola Petkovic, "The Poet(h)ics of the Danube: Claudio Magris, Miroslav Krleza and Central European Identities"
- Roxana M. Verona, "The 'Other' Danube - Imaginary or Intercultural Corridor?"
- Guido Snel, "The Return of Pannonia: Imaginary Topos and Space of Homelessness"
- Elizabeta Seleva, "Balkan and Mediterranean Intertexts in Macedonian Literature"
b) Regions as Cultural Interfaces
- Ambrus Miskolczy and Virgil Nemoianu, "Dialectics of Conflict and Tolerance in Transylvanian Literature"
- Robert Elsie, "The Hybrid Soil of the Balkans: A Topography of Albanian Literature"
- Seth Wolitz, "Ashkenaz or the Jewish Presence in Central and Eastern Europe"
- THE RECONSTRUCTION of IMAGINARY COMMUNITIES: NATIVE TO DIASPORIC
- Florin Berindeanu, "The Case of Benjamin Fundoianu. Bucharest-Paris-Auschwitz: A Tragic One-Way Ticket to Universality"
- Vladimir Biti, "Up and Down in the Croatian Literary Geography: The Case of Krugovasi"
- Agnieszka Gutthy, "Paris and the Polish Emigré"
- Katarzyna Jerzak, "Syllogismes de l'exil: Cioran and Gombrowicz in Paris"
- Sabina Mihelj, "Transformations/Transfirmations of Imaginary Landscapes: Istra and Savrinija as Intercultural Narratives"
- Angieszka Nance, "Jan Lam and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Galicia in the Historical Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Polish Culture"
- Inna Peleva, "Macedonia in the Bulgarian Literature"
- Monica Spiridon, "Romanian Paris[es]"
- Dubravka Ugresic, "Writing Nowhere (Exile)"
- Tiina A. Kirss, "'All Souls' Night': Topographical Memory in the Fictional Writings of Swedish and North American Estonian Diaspora"
- Violeta Kelertas, "Lithuanian Diasporic Movements"
- Péter Krasztev, "Istanbul"
- Fridrun Rinner, "Vienna as a Site of East Central European Literary Production"
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "Hungarian Exile"
Part III
INSTITUTIONAL NODES and GENERIC CONVENTIONSINTRODUCTION
John Neubauer, "The National Projects of Institutionalizing Literature"
- LITERARY HISTORIES and TEXTBOOKS
- Epp Annus & Luule Epner, Estonia
- Robert Elsie, Albania
- Nenad Ivic, Croatia
- Jolanta Jastrzebska, Poland
- Alexander Kiossev, "The Textbooks of Literary History and the Construction of National Identity"
- Alexander Kiossev, "Lists of the Missing"
- Agita Misane, Latvia
- John Neubauer, Hungary
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovakia
- Svetlana Slapsak, Serbia
- Monica Spiridon, Romania
- Jüri Talvet, Estonian World Literatures
- Endre Bojtár, "History of ECE Research"
- George Grabowicz, Ukraine
- THEATER
- Nikola Batusic, "The European Horizons of Stjepan Miletic"
- László Bérczes, "Hungarian Theater in the 1970s and 80s"
- Joel Berkowitz, "The Yiddish Theater in New York: Born in Europe, Raised in America"
- Robert Elsie, "Modern Theatre in Albania (1945-)"
- Dorota Fox, "Polish Cabaret"
- Monika Garbowska, "Polish Drama in the Nineteenth Century"
- Ondrej Hucin, "Czech Theater from the Enlightenment to Late Romanticism (1785-1880)"
- Ondrej Hucin, "Modernists and the avant-garde in the Czech theatre (1880-1945)"
- Zoltán Imre, "The Creation of the Pesti Magyar Szinház"
- Zoltán Imre, "The Thália Theater"
- Sanja Jovicevic, Bresan & Popovic
- Sanja Jovicevic, Theater within Theater
- Sanja Jovicevic, "The Contemplative and Poetic Plays of Jovan Hristic and Velimir Lukic"
- Lado Kralj, "Theatre under Socialism in Slovenia"
- Sibila Petlevski, "Gavella"
- Sibila Petlevski, Croatian Modernism
- Marian Popescu, Theater in Romania
- Jaak Rahesoo, "Politics and Artistic Autonomy in Estonian Theatre"
- Dagmar Roberts, "Theater in Slovakia"
- Banuta Rubess, "Female Trailblazers in Latvian Literature"
- Violetta Sajkiewicz, "Polish Stage Design 1898-1989"
- Joanna Spassova-Dikova, "Totalitarian Theatre Iconography of the Party Leader"
- Joanna Spassova-Dikova, "The Mytho-Poetical Bulgarian Drama"
- Joanna Spassova-Dikova, "Theater in Bulgaria"
- Michael Steinlauf, "The Jewish Theater in Warsaw"
- Eleonora Idalska, "Jerzy Jarocki - The Master of Directing"
- Ewa Wachocka, "Polish Drama of the Twentieth Century"
- John Neubauer, "The National Operas of East-Central Europe"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "The Shadow Theater in the Balkans"
- Arturas Tereskinas, "Theater in Lithuania"
- JOURNALS: CASE STUDIES
- Carmen D. Blaga, "Press and Multiculturalism"
- Tomislav Brlek, "The Krugovasi"
- Robert Elsie, "Journals in Albania"
- Dagmar Roberts, Slovak Journals
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "Protestant Journalism in Hungary"
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "Budapest and its Literary Journals (1900-1915)"
- George Grabowicz, Kultura
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Interbellum Avant garde Periodicals"
- CENSORSHIP: CASE STUDIES
- Karl Jirgens, "Censorship and Alterity: Aleksander Pelecis' Non-Fiction"
- Kees Mercks, "Hrabal's 'Jarmilka': a Suitable Case for Treatment"
- Dagmar Roberts, Censorship in Slovakia
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, "The Introduction of Communist Censorship in Hungary 1945-49"
- Liviu Teghiu, "A Prison for Words"
- Kersti Unt, "Underground Publishing in Estonia"
- Vilmos Voigt, "Censorship and Folklore Research"
- Jan Culik, Censorship in Czechochslovakia
- Tiina Kirss, Censorship in Estonia
- Violeta Kelertas, Censorship in Soviet Lithuania (1944-1990)
- INSTITUTIONALIZATIONS of FOLKLORE
- Elka Agoston-Nikolova, "The Construction of the National Epic Tradition"
- Endre Bojtár, "Latvian and Lithuanian Mythologizing of the Past"
- Robert Elsie, "The Rediscovery of Folk Literature in Albania"
- Ottilia Hedesan, "Meetings with St. Vineri: Comments upon a South-Danube Romanian folk motif"
- Alexander Kiossev and Albena Hranova, "Bulgarian Uses of Folklore"
- Dagmar Roberts, Folklore in Slovakia
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Nationalism and Folklore: The Identity Game"
- Jolanta Sujecka, "'Sons of Black Death': The Semantics of Foreignness in Twentieth-Century Bulgarian and Macedonian Writings"
- Ülo Valk, Estonia
- Vilmos Voigt, "Institutionalization and Processing of Ethnic Symbols in Hungarian Folklore"
- Vilmos Voigt, "'Heidenrösleinkrawall' - Ballad Origins Vindicated (1864)"
- Aija Veldre Beldavs, "Latvian Folklore and its Uses"
- George Grabowicz, Ukraine
- Svetlana Slapsak, Vuk Karadzic
- GENRES and MOVEMENTS
a) Constructing the Region
- Endre Bojtár, "The Avant Garde"
- Péter Krasztev, "Nationalism and Modernity"
- Péter Krasztev, "The Beginnings of Modernism"
- Péter Krasztev, "Symbolism"
- Péter Krasztev, "Postmodernism"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "The Adventure Novel"
- Monica Spiridon, "One Hundred Years of History, Literature, Identity at the Margins of Western (Post)Modernity"
- Galin Tihanov, Literary Theory
b) Constructing Genres and Movements:
- i. Multilingually
- The Historical Novel
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, "Romanian Historical Fiction"
- Jasmina Lukic, "The Historical Novel in East-Central Europe"
- Boyko Penchev, "The Bulgarian Historical Novel"
- Sándor Hites, "The Hungarian Historical Novel
- The Family Novel
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, The Family Cycle in Romanian Fiction
- Zofia Mitosek, "The Family Novel in East-Central Europe: Illustrated with works by Isaac B. Singer and Wlodzimierz Odojewski"
- ii. Monolingually
- Monika Garbowska, "Polish-Jewish Literature"
- Arent van Nieukerken, "Polish Poetry in the Twentieth Century"
- Boyko Penchev, "Facets of the Bulgarian Novel"
- Robert Pynsent, "Czech Decadence"
b) Shifting Voices
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, "Shifting Perspectives in the Romanian Novel: From Exteriority to Interiority, from Collective to Individual, from Monologic to Dialogic"
- George Grabowicz, "Subversion and Self-Assertion: The Role of Kotljarevshchyna in Russian-Ukranian Literary Relations"
- Diana Kuprel, "East-Central European Reportage"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Women's Subversion of Genre"
- Guido Snel, "Fictionalized Autobiography in Post WWII East-Central Europe"
c) Constructing the Region Multimedially
- Dina Iordanova, "East-Central European Cinema and Literary History"
- John Neubauer, "The National Operas of East-Central Europe"
Part IV
FIGURAL NODESINTRODUCTION
Svetlana Slapsak, "Schema, Gestal, figure/figurative: From Greek Rhetorics to Figural Nodes"
- THE WRITER AS NATIONAL ICON
Introduction: George Grabowicz
- Dvir Abramovich, "Bialik, Poet of the People"
- Jeremy Dauber, "Creating a Yiddish Canon: Authors as Icons in Modern Yiddish Literature"
- Thomas Salumets, "Jaan Kross: Negotiating Nation"
- Thomas Salumets, "The Estonian Poet Jaan Kaplinski: A National Icon Without Nation - A Poet Without Poetry"
- Arturas Tereskinas, "The Gendering of the Lithuanian Nation in Maironis's Poetry"
- George Grabowicz, Taras Shevchenko
- George Grabowicz, Franko and Lesja Ukrainka
- George Grabowicz, Mykola Xvyl' ovyj
- Roman Koropecky, "Adam Mickiewicz as a Polish National Icon"
- Calin Mihailescu, Eminescu
- Inna Peleva, Botev
- Robert Pynsent, Macha
- Svetlana Slapsak, "The Icon of the Poet: The Cases of Njegos, Preseren and Mazuranic"
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Petöfy
- HEROES (FIGURES of MALE IDENTITY?)
- Karl Jirgens, "Petty Demons and Other Tricksters in Latvian Literature"
- I. Colovic, Svetlana Slapsak, Balkan Warriors (Marko Kraljevic, klephtes, hajduks, modern warriors)
- George Grabowicz, "Kozaks - Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian Perspectives"
- A. Hrytsenko, "Urban/Suburban Heroes of the Socialist Era"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Nasradin Hodza and other Comic Balkan Priests"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Brando Copic and the De-heroization of WWII"
- FIGURES of COLLECTIVE SELF
- Wlodzimierz Bolecki, "The Idea of the Homeland and the Poet Joseph Mackiewicz"
- Alexander Kiossev, "Notes on the Self-colonizing Cultures"
- Miro Masek, "Models of Collective Identity in the Novels of Milos Crnjanski"
- Elka Agoston-Nikolova, "Between Individual and National Identity"
- Toma Longinovic, "Orthodox-Islamic Othering"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Memories of One, Memories of All: Prota Matija Nenadovic and Makriyannis"
- Drago Rotar, "Trains and Spirits: Slovenian Identity in the Nineteenth Century"
- FIGURES of TRAUMA
- Jura Avizienis, "Performing Identity: Lithuanian Memoirs of Siberian Deportation and Exile"
- Nevena Dakovic, "Remembrance of the Past and the Present: War Trauma in the Yugoslav Cinema"
- Jolanta Jastrzebska, "Traumas of World War II"
- Tina Kirss, "Family Trauma in Twentieth-century Estonian Literature"
- Lado Kralj, "Goli Otok Literature"
- Jasmina Lukic, "Gender and War in South Slavic Literatures"
- George Grabowicz, "The Famine in Ukrainian Literature"
- Robert Pynsent, "Czech Shoah Literature"
- FIGURES of FEMALE IDENTITY
- Marcel Cornis-Pope, "Women at the Foundation of Literary Culture: From Muse to Writing Agent"
- Sandra Meskova, "Figure of the Daughter: Representation of the Feminine Latvian Women's Autobiographical Writing of the 1990s"
- Sandra Meskova, "Constructing a Woman Author Within the Literary Canon: Aspazija and Anna Brigadere"
- Biljana Nesic-Dojcinovic, "Transcribing the Voice of the Mother: The Diary of Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja"
- Inna Peleva, "The Image of the Mother in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Bulgarian Literature"
- Agatha Schwartz, "A Desire of Their Own? Representations of Sexuality by Hungarian Women Writers at Two Fin-de-Siècles"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Women's Memory in The Balkans: The Alternative Kosovo Myth"
- Metka Zupancic, "Feminist Dystopia: Berta Bojetu-Boeta, a Slovenian Model"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Sisters, Daughters, Concubines, and Bastards of Literature: Five Croatian and Serbian Cases"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "From Subversion to Culpabilization: Women and Totalitarianism"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Women Who Steal Language: Witches and Fairies in Serbian Literature and Critical Reception"
- Jolanta Jastrzebska, "Feminist Interpretation of Polish and Hungarian Women's Writing"
- Natalia Stagl, "Muse in Russian and Central European Literatures"
- N. Zborovska, "Contemporary Feminist Writing in the Ukraine"
- FIGURES of THE OTHER
- Dvir Abramovich, "Tlushim: The Alienated and the Uprooted"
- Craig Cravens, "From Robots to Golems"
- Nevena Dakovic, "Love, Magic, and Life: Gypsies in Yugoslav Cinema"
- Taja Kramberger, "The Street Philosopher"
- Robert Pynsent, "Czech Feminist Anti-semitism
- Svetlana Slapsak, "The Figure of the Oriental in Balkan Literatures"
- FIGURES of MEDIATION
- Pia Brinzeu, "Lovely Barbarians: British Travelers in Romania"
- Gábor Gango, "Jóseph Eötvös, Thinker of a Multinational State"
- Péter Hajdu, "On the Ethnic Border: The Image of Slovaks in Kálmán Mikszáth's Writing"
- Lida Stefanowska, Antonych
- George Grabowicz, Svetlana Slapsak et al, "Scholars, Travelers, and Disseminators"
- Karl Jirgens, "Translations: Latvians and Others"
- Gabriella Schubert and Miro Masek, "Slavic Weimar/Jena"
- Svetlana Slapsak, "Women Travelers in the Balkans (Dora d'Istria, R. West, Anica Savic Rebac)"
Part V
- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES
a) Chronological Table of the National Literary Traditions
b) Chronological Table of Interchanges
MAPS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Indices
Bibliography
Working Plan
June 15, 2001
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