Paris as a Constitutive East-Central European Topos

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Note on Documentation and Translation xiii
6. Table of contents, Volume I xv
7. In preparation xix
8. Introduction 1
9. 1. CITIES AS SITES OF HYBRID LITERARY IDENTITY AND MULTICULTURAL PRODUCTION
10. Introduction 9
11. Vilnius/Wilno/Vilna 11
12. The Tartu/Tallinn Dialectic in Estonian Letters and Culture 28
13. Monuments and the Literary Culture of Riga 40
14. Czernowitz/Cernăuti/Chernovtsy/Chernivtsi/Czerniowce 57
15. ‘The City that Is No More, the City that Will Stand Forever’ 77
16. On the Borders of Mighty Empires 93
17. Literary Production in Marginocentric Cultural Node 105
18. Plovdiv 124
19. The Torn Soul of a City 145
20. Topographies of Literary Culture in Budapest 162
21. Prague 176
22. Cities in Ashkenaz 182
23. 2. REGIONAL SITES OF CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
24. Introduction 213
25. A. The Literary Cultures of the Danubian Corridor
26. Mapping the Danubian Literary Mosaic 217
27. Upstream and Downstream the Danube 224
28. The Intercultural Corridor of the ‘Other’ Danube 232
29. B. Regions as Cultural Interfaces
30. Transylvania’s Literary Cultures 245
31. The Hybrid Soil of the Balkans 283
32. Up and Down in Croatian Literary Geography 301
33. Ashkenaz or the Jewish Cultural Presence in Central and Eastern Europe 314
34. C. Representing Transnational (Real or Imaginary) Regional Spaces
35. The Return of Pannonia as Imaginary Topos and Space of Homelessness 333
36. Jan Lam and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 344
37. Macedonia in Bulgarian Literature 357
38. Transformations of Imagined Landscapes 364
39. 3. THE LITERARY RECONSTRUCTION OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE’S IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: NATIVE TO DIASPORIC
40. Introduction 375
41. Kafka, Švejk, and the Butcher’s Wife, or Postcommunism/ Postcolonialism and Central Europe 376
42. Tsarigrad/Istanbul/Constantinople and the Spatial Construction of Bulgarian National Identity in the Nineteenth Century 390
43. Paradoxical Renaissance Abroad 413
44. Paris as a Constitutive East-Central European Topos 428
45. A Tragic One-Way Ticket to Universality 443
46. Works Cited 453
47. Index of East-Central European Names: Vol. 2 495
48. List of Contributors 511