Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface by the Editors 1
4. Broken Narratives: Modernism and the Tradition of Rupture 9
5. Discourses on the Ottomans in Old Hungarian Literature: Observations on a Volatile Image 23
6. Ivan Mažuranić’s The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (1846): The Controversial Reception of an Epic Poem 31
7. Conflicting Narratives: Notes on the Compositional Nature of Poems in Prose 41
8. Conflict, Narration, and Satirical Violence in Karl Kraus’ Die Fackel 53
9. Peace Talks Between Image and Word: Carl Einstein’s Struggle for a Non-Totalizing Ekphrasis 63
10. The Importance of Conflict Elsewhere: Francis Stuart’s and Hugo Hamilton’s Literary Engagements with Germany and the Second World War 87
11. Damaged Words and Closed Houses: Everyday World and Memory Narratives in Georges Perec 111
12. The Sovereign’s Broken Voice: On the Cinematic Politics of Representation 133
13. “Hurt Identities?” The Postwar Bosnian Narrative of Self-Victimization 149
14. Collateral Roadkill: The Conflicted Death of “Central Europe” en route to Sarajevo and Brussels 165
15. Stories as “Weapons of Mass Destruction”: George W. Bush’s Narratives of Crisis as Paradigm Examples of Ways of World- and Conflict-Making (and Conflict-Solving?) 187
16. Index 231