Description
The edited volume offers a series of historical overviews of the discipline in the region. The first section is devoted to theoretical discussion, addressing disciplinary historiography, the discipline's emergence from the region's historical tensions, and recent conceptualizations of Central Europe. Together, these contributions clarify key methodological issues while also making explicit the historical position from which we ourselves conduct our research. The second section presents histories of the discipline in Hungary, Romania, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Tracing the many histories of comparative literature across Central Europe The edited volume offers a series of historical overviews of the discipline in the region. The first section is devoted to theoretical discussion, addressing disciplinary historiography (Blaz Zabel), the discipline's emergence from the region's historical tensions (Blaz Gselman), and recent conceptualizations of Central Europe (Jessie Labov). Together, these contributions clarify key methodological issues while also making explicit the historical position from which we ourselves conduct our research. The second section presents histories of the discipline in Hungary (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek), Romania (Snejana Ung), Czechia (Milos Zelenka), Slovakia (Róbert Gáfrik), Poland (Malgorzata Burzka-Janik; Pawel Marcinkiewicz), Slovenia (Tone Smolej), Serbia (Vladimir Gvozden), Germany (Max Behmer), Austria (Norbert Bachleitner), and Switzerland (Marie Kondrat). Blaz Zabel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works on the history of scholarship, particularly Homeric scholarship, philology, and comparative literature. Blaz Gselman is a comparatist and doctoral candidate at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests include world literature studies, postcolonial theory, and theorizations of modernity and modernisms. Prof. Dr. Norbert Bachleitner lehrt Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Wien. Pawel Marcinkiewicz is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Opole, Poland. His research focuses on American literature and translation theory.
Dr. Tone Smolej ist seit 2009 außerordentlicher Professor für vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturtheorie an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Ljubljana.
Blaz Zabel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works on the history of scholarship, particularly Homeric scholarship, philology, and comparative literature. Blaz Gselman is a comparatist and doctoral candidate at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests include world literature studies, postcolonial theory, and theorizations of modernity and modernisms.
