Pitfalls in Writing a Regional Literary History of East-Central Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Visual Material xiii
5. General Introduction 1
6. Part I. PUBLISHING AND CENSORSHIP
7. Introduction 39
8. 1. Publishing
9. The Cosmopolitanism of Moderní revue (1894–1925) 63
10. The Uncompromising Standards of Nyugat (1908–1941) 70
11. A Contest within Romanian Modernism 80
12. Krugovi 84
13. Underground Publishing in Estonia under Soviet Censorship 86
14. Slovak Journals between Languages and against Censorship 89
15. The National Role of the Albanian Literary Journals 92
16. 2. Censorship
17. The Laws and Practices of Censorship in Bohemia 95
18. Censorship 101
19. Religious and Political Censorship in Slovakia 111
20. The Introduction of Communist Censorship in Hungary 1945–49) 114
21. Strategies against Censorship in Soviet Lithuania (1944–90) 125
22. Getting Around Polish Censorship 135
23. Censorship after Independence 138
24. Part II. THEATER AS A LITERARY INSTITUTION
25. General Introduction 143
26. 1. Professionalization and Institutionalization in the Service of a National Awakening
27. Introduction 147
28. Building a(s) Theater 149
29. Slovenia 153
30. Czech Theater 154
31. Slovakia 158
32. Polish Drama Sustains Spiritual Unity in a Divided Country 159
33. Lithuania 162
34. Politics and Artistic Autonomy in Estonian Theater 163
35. Theater Speaks Many Languages in Romania 166
36. From the Č itališta to the National Theater in Bulgaria 167
37. 2. Modernism: the Director Rules
38. Introduction 171
39. The European Horizons of Stjepan Miletić 173
40. Reform within 176
41. Modernist Inroads into Czech Theater 178
42. Fuzzy Borderlines 183
43. The Interbellum Emancipation of the Slovak Stage 189
44. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism Clash on the Romanian Stage 191
45. Institutionalization and Innovation in the Bulgarian Theater 192
46. Polish Modernist Drama 196
47. Stage and Stage Design in Polish Modernist Theater 199
48. Popular Amusement and Avant-garde in the Polish Cabaret 203
49. Yiddish Theater 205
50. The Stage in Independent Lithuania 210
51. Kicking with Poetry 211
52. The Ebbs and Flows of Modernist Energy in Estonian Theater 213
53. Branko Gavella 215
54. 3. Theater under Socialism
55. Introduction 217
56. The Short Interlude of a Liberal Czech Theater 221
57. Slovak Drama 226
58. Communism and After in Romanian Theater 227
59. Mandatory Socialist Models vs. Stylist Eclecticism on the Bulgarian Stage 228
60. Enver-Hoxha Dictatorship Stifles Albanian Theater 231
61. From Provincial Backwaters to Budapest and World Reputation 234
62. After Witkacy and Gombrowicz 238
63. Wyspiański’s Offsprings 241
64. The Visual Richness of the Polish Stage 243
65. Independence Brings International Recognition to Lithuanian Directors 245
66. Estonian Theater Loosens the Soviet Straightjacket 247
67. Ideological Critique and Moral Rectitude in Slovene Dramas 250
68. Ingenious Dramatic Strategies Reach across the Yugoslav Theater Space 257
69. Epilogue 265
70. Part III. FORGING PRIMAL PASTS: THE USES OF FOLKLORE
71. Introduction 269
72. Levels of Institutionalization in Estonian Folklore 285
73. Mythologizing Contemporary Baltic Consciousness 290
74. National and International Traits in the Latvian Trickster Velns 295
75. The Ideal of Folk Culture in the Literature of the Czech National Rebirth 298
76. Folklore in the Making of Slovak Literature 310
77. The Question of Folklore in Romanian Literary Culture 314
78. The Heidenrösleinkrawall (The Row about the Wild Roses) 323
79. Folklore as a Means to Demonstrate a Nation’s Existence 325
80. The Rediscovery of Folk Literature in Albania 335
81. “Sons of Black Death” 338
82. Part IV. LITERARY HISTORIES AND TEXTBOOKS
83. Introduction 345
84. Shifting Ideologies in Estonia’s Literary Histories, Textbooks, and Anthologies 355
85. Latvian Literary Histories and Textbooks 359
86. Sorrows and Glories of a Nation’s Soul 361
87. Nineteenth-Century Czech Literary History, National Revival, and the Forged Manuscripts 366
88. Overcoming Czech and Hungarian Perspectives in Writing Slovak Literary Histories 377
89. The Narrowing Scope of Hungarian Literary Histories 384
90. The Career of Latecomers 392
91. Conceiving of a Croatian Literary Canon, 1900–50 395
92. Serbia 404
93. Albanian Literary History 409
94. National Identity and Textbooks of Literary History 411
95. Pitfalls in Writing a Regional Literary History of East-Central Europe 419
96. WORKS CITED 429
97. APPENDIX
98. List of Contributors 491
99. Table of Contents, Vol. 1 495
100. Table of Contents, Vol. 2 499
101. Gazetteer 503
102. INDEX of East-Central European Names 505