Full Description
Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000. Scholars from Canada, the United States, and Europe identify the motifs, topics, and ways of artistic creation that define this cross-cultural region. This interdisciplinary volume is divided into two historical periods and includes analyses of literature, film, music, architecture, and media. By focusing first on the interrelations in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century, the contributors reveal a complex trans-ethnic network at play that disseminated aesthetic ideals. This network continued to be a force of aesthetic influence leading into the twenty-first century despite globalization and the influence of mass media.
Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei have embarked on a study of the overlapping artistic influences that have outlasted both the National Socialist regime and the Cold War.
Contents
Introduction: Crossings and Encounters
Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei
Part One: 1900
1. Beyond Aesthetic Boarders: Theory—Media—Case Study
Helga Mitterbauer
2. The Aesthetics of Change: Women Writers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Agatha Schwartz and Helga Thorson
3. Border, Trans-Border, and Unification—Music and Its Divergent Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Territories
Gregor Kokorz
4. History without End(s): The Aesthetics and Politics of the Reading Play
Imre Szeman
5. Kitchen Stories: Literary and Architectural Reflections on Modern Kitchens in Central Europe
Sarah McGaughey
Part Two: 2000
6. Spaces of Unhomeliness: Re-Reading Post-Imperial Urban Heterotopias in East Central Europe
Irene Sywenky
7. Interdependences: Migration, (Trans-)Cultural Codes and the Writing of Central Europe in Texts by Doron Rabinovici, Julya Rabinowich, and Vladimir Vertlib
Sandra Vlasta
8. Cultures of Memory, Migration, and Masculinity: Dimitré Dinev's Engelszungen
Michael Boehringer
9. Remixing Central European Culture: The Case of Laibach
Stefan Simonek
10. Bottled Messages for Europe's Future?: The Danube in Contemporary Transnational Cinema
Matthew D. Miller
11. Beyond Central Europe: Confluence and the Cosmopolitical Public Intellectual
Carrie Smith-Prei
