Comparative Central European culture / edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, 1950-

Series:

Comparative cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Intellectual life.

Europe, Central--Literatures--History and criticism--Congresses.

Europe, Central.

Europe, Central--Intellectual life--20th century--Congresses.

Motion pictures--Europe, Central--Congresses.

Central Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2002]

Summary:

This volume contains selected papers of conferences organized by the editor, Steven Totosy, in 1999 and 2000 in Canada and the US on various topics of culture and literature in Central and East Europe. Based on the (contested) notion of the existence of a

Contents:

Comparative cultural studies and the study of Central European culture / Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

A comparative view of modernism in Central European literature / Andrea Fábry

Radnóti, Celan, and aesthetic shifts in Central European Holocaust poetry / Zsuzsanna Ozsváth

Comparative Central European culture : gender in literature and film / Anikó Imre

Austroslovakism in Anton Hykisch's novel about Maria Theresa / Peter Petro

Milan Kundera and the identity of Central Europe / Hana Pichova

Politics, history, and public intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 / Katherine Arens

Comparative Central European culture : Austrian and Hungarian cinema today / Catherine Portuges

Comparative Central European culture : displacements and peripheralities / Roumiana Deltcheva

Central Europe, Jewish family history, and Sunshine / Susan Rubin Suleiman.

Notes:

Rev. and expanded versions of papers originally presented at three different conferences held during 1999-2000: the 24th Annual Conference of the American Hungarian Educators' Association (Cleveland, April 1999); Central European Culture Today (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Sept. 1999); annual conference, Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C., Dec. 2000).

"Selected bibliography for the study of Central European culture": pages 189-205.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1557532400

OCLC:

47764373