Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Crossings and Encounters vii
4. Part One: 1900
5. 1. Beyond Aesthetic Borders: Theory – Media – Case Study 1
6. 2. The Aesthetics of Change: Women Writers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 27
7. 3. Border, Transborder, and Unification: Music and Its Divergent Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Territories 50
8. 4. History without End(s): The Aesthetics and Politics of the Reading Play 80
9. 5. Kitchen Stories: Literary and Architectural Reflections on Modern Kitchens in Central Europe 100
10. Part Two: 2000
11. 6. Spaces of Unhomeliness: Rereading Post-Imperial Urban Heterotopias in East Central Europe 121
12. 7. Interdependencies: Migration, (Trans-)Cultural Codes and the Writing of Central Europe in Texts by Doron Rabinovici, Julya Rabinowich, and Vladimir Vertlib 148
13. 8. Cultures of Memory, Migration, and Masculinity: Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen 169
14. 9. Remixing Central European Culture: The Case of Laibach 196
15. 10. Bottled Messages for Europe’s Future? The Danube in Contemporary Transnational Cinema 219
16. 11. Ilija Trojanow and the Cosmopolitical Public Intellectual 251
17. Contributors 275
18. Index 279