Introduction to Part I

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Editors’ Preface xi
4. Preface by the General Editor of the Literary History Project xiii
5. Note on Documentation and Translation xvii
6. In Preparation xix
7. General introduction 1
8. Geography and borders 19
9. Part I. Nodes of political time
10. Introduction to Part I 33
11. 1989
12. From resistance to reformulation 39
13. 1989 in Poland 51
14. Reversals of the postmodern and the late Soviet simulacrum in the Baltic Countries — with exemplifications from Estonian literature 54
15. Models of literary and cultural identity on the margins of (post)modernity 65
16. Quoting instead of living 70
17. 1956/1968
18. Revolt, suppression, and liberalization in Post-Stalinist East-Central Europe 83
19. 1948
20. Introduction 107
21. Romanian literature under Stalinism 112
22. The retraumatization of the 1948 communist purges in Yugoslav literary culture 124
23. Heritage and inheritors 132
24. 1945 143
25. 1918
26. Overview 177
27. Women writers and the war experience 191
28. The footsteps of Gavrilo Princip 202
29. Beyond Vienna 1900 216
30. The Great War as a monstrous carnival 228
31. Polish literature of World War I 236
32. 1867/1878/1881 241
33. 1848 263
34. 1776/1789
35. Introduction 293
36. The spirit of 1776 294
37. The cultural legacy of empires in Eastern Europe 307
38. The Jacobin Movement in Hungary (1792–95) 311
39. 1789 and Bulgarian Culture 313
40. Part II. Histories of literary form
41. Shifting periods and trends
42. Between Classicism and Romanticism 325
43. From modernization to modernist literature 332
44. Czech Decadence 348
45. The Avant-garde in East-Central European literature 364
46. Shifting genres
47. Literary reportage 375
48. Gardens of the mind, places for doubt 386
49. Subversion and self-assertion 401
50. Poeticizing prose in Croatian and Serbian Modernism 409
51. Stanislav Vinaver 414
52. The birth of modern literary theory in East-Central Europe 416
53. Polish poetry in the twentieth century 424
54. Polish-Jewish literature 435
55. Shifting perspectives and voices in the Romanian novel 441
56. Forms of the Bulgarian novel 456
57. The historical novel
58. Introduction 463
59. The Hungarian historical novel in regional context 467
60. Recent historical novels and historiographic metafiction in the Balkans 480
61. The historical novel in Slovenian literature 493
62. The search for a modern, problematizing historical consciousness 499
63. The family novel in East-Central Europe 505
64. Histories of multimedia constructions
65. Introduction 513
66. National operas in East-Central Europe 514
67. East-Central European cinema and literary history 524
68. The silent tale of fury 541
69. Central Europe’s catastrophes on film 548
70. Works cited 559
71. Index of East-Central-European Names 623
72. List of Contributors 645