Crossing Central Europe : continuities and transformations, 1900 and 2000 / edited by Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitterbauer, Helga, editor.

Smith, Carrie, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Europe, Central--Civilization--20th century.

Europe, Central.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

xviii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000. Scholars from Canada, the United States, and Europe identify the motifs, topics, and ways of artistic creation that define this cross-cultural region. This interdisciplinary volume is divided into two historical periods and includes analyses of literature, film, music, architecture, and media. By focusing first on the interrelations in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century, the contributors reveal a complex trans-ethnic network at play that disseminated aesthetic ideals. This network continued to be a force of aesthetic influence leading into the twenty-first century despite globalization and the influence of mass media. Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei have embarked on a study of the overlapping artistic influences that have outlasted both the National Socialist regime and the Cold War."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part One : 1900. Beyond Aesthetic Borders : Theory - Media - Case Study / Helga Mitterbauer

The Aesthetics of Change : Women Writers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy / Agatha Schwartz and Helga Thorson

Border, Transborder, and Unification : Music and Its Divergent Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Territories / Gregor Kokorz

History without End(s): The Aesthetics and Politics of the Reading Play / Imre Szeman

Kitchen Stories : Literary and Architectural Reflections on Modern Kitchens in Central Europe / Sarah McGaughey.

Part Two : 2000. Spaces of Unhomeliness : Rereading Post-Imperial Urban Heterotopias in East Central Europe / Irene Sywenky

Interdependences : Migration, (Trans-)Cultural Codes and the Writing of Central Europe in Texts by Doron Rabinovici, Julya Rabinowich, and Vladimir Vertlib / Sandra Vlasta

Cultures of Memory, Migration, and Masculinity : Dimitré Dinev's Engelszungen / Michael Boehringer

Remixing Central European Culture : The Case of Laibach / Stefan Simonek

Bottled Messages for Europe's Future? The Danube in Contemporary Transnational Cinema / Matthew D. Miller

Ilija Trojanow and the Cosmopolitical Public Intellectual / Carrie Smith-Prei.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442649149

1442649143

OCLC:

985966259

Publisher Number:

99969295286