Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries : types and stereotypes / edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornis-Pope, Marcel.

Neubauer, John.

Series:

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history--Europe, Eastern.

Literature and history.

East European literature--History and criticism.

East European literature.

Europe, Eastern--History.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (728 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe approaches the region’s literatures from five complementary angles, focusing on literature’s participation in and reaction to key political events, literary periods and genres, the literatures of cities and sub-regions, literary institutions, and figures of representation. The main objective of the project is to challenge the self-enclosure of national literatures in traditional literary histories, to contextualize them in a regional perspective, and to recover individual works, writers, and minority literatures that national histories have marginalized or ignored. Types and stereotypes brings together articles that rethink the figures of National Poets, figurations of the Family, Women, Outlaws, and Others, as well as figures of Trauma and Mediation. As in the previous three volumes, the historical and imaginary figures discussed here constantly change and readjust to new political and social conditions. An Epilogue complements the basic history, focusing on the contradictory transformations of East-Central European literary cultures after 1989. This volume will be of interest to the region’s literary historians, to students and teachers of comparative literature, to cultural historians, and to the general public interested in exploring the literatures of a rich and resourceful cultural region.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer.literarycultures.pdf

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

General Introduction

Figures of national poets

Introduction

Adam Mickiewicz as a Polish National Icon

Petofi: Self-Fashioning, Consecration, Dismantling

Mácha, the Czech National Poet

Mihai Eminescu: The Foundational Truth of a Dual Lyre

France Prešeren: A Conquest of the Slovene Parnassus

Petar II Petrovic Njegoš: The Icon of the Poet with the Icon

Hristo Botev and the Necessity of National Icons

Bialik, Poet of the People

Figurations of the family

Family Trauma and Domestic Violence in Twentieth-Century Estonian Literature

In Search of the Mother’s Voice

Daughter Figures in Latvian Women’s Autobiographical Writing of the 1990s

Figuring the Motherland and Staging the Party Father in Bulgarian Literature

Gendering the Body of the Lithuanian Nation in Maironis’s Poetry

František Palacký, the Father Figure of Czech Historiography and Nation Building

Miloš Crnjanski’s Homecoming to a Migrating National Family

Figures of female identity

Women at the Foundation of Romanian Literary Culture

Constructing a Woman Author within the Literary Canon

Gender and War in South Slavic Literatures

Women’s Memory and an Alternative Kosovo Myth

Women’s Corpuses, Corpses or (Cultural) Bodies

Berta Bojetu-Boeta’s Feminist Dystopias

Figures of the Other

How Did the Golem Get to Prague?

How Did the Golems (and Robots) Enter Stage and Screen and Leave Prague?

Vámbéry, Stoker, and Dracula

Lasting Legacies

Czech Feminist Anti-Semitism

Figuring the Other in Nineteenth-Century Czech Literature

Killing with Metaphors

Love, Magic, and Life

The Alienated and Uprooted Tlushim

Figures of outlaws

The Rural Outlaws of East-Central Europe

Juraj Jánošík

Shifting Images of the Bulgarian Haiduti

Figures of trauma

Remembrances of the Past and the Present

‘Goli Otok’ Literature

Traumas of World War II

Performing Identity

Figures of mediation

Joseph Eötvös

On the Ethnic Border

Two Regionalists of the Interwar Period

Journeys to the Other Half of the Continent

Epilogue

East-Central European Literature after 1989

Works cited

Index

List of Contributors to Volume 4

Errata for volumes 1-3

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612895791

9781282895799

1282895796

9789027287861

9027287864

OCLC:

694147081