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.
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Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000.
Introduction: Crossings and EncountersHelga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei Part One: 1900 1. Beyond Aesthetic Boarders: Theory—Media—Case StudyHelga Mitterbauer 2. The Aesthetics of Change: Women Writers of the Austro-Hungarian MonarchyAgatha Schwartz and Helga Thorson 3. Border, Trans-Border, and Unification—Music and Its Divergent Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg TerritoriesGregor Kokorz 4. History without End(s): The Aesthetics and Politics of the Reading PlayImre Szeman 5. Kitchen Stories: Literary and Architectural Reflections on Modern Kitchens in Central EuropeSarah McGaughey Part Two: 2000 6. Spaces of Unhomeliness: Re-Reading Post-Imperial Urban Heterotopias in East Central EuropeIrene Sywenky 7. Interdependences: Migration, (Trans-)Cultural Codes and the Writing of Central Europe in Texts by Doron Rabinovici, Julya Rabinowich, and Vladimir VertlibSandra Vlasta 8. Cultures of Memory, Migration, and Masculinity: Dimitré Dinev’s EngelszungenMichael Boehringer 9. Remixing Central European Culture: The Case of LaibachStefan Simonek 10. Bottled Messages for Europe’s Future?: The Danube in Contemporary Transnational CinemaMatthew D. Miller 11. Beyond Central Europe: Confluence and the Cosmopolitical Public IntellectualCarrie Smith-Prei
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"Crossing Central Europe moves Austrian Studies into Central European Studies by credibly crossing boundaries of nation, language, genre, and discipline. It is a serious advance, and an invitation to other scholars to formulate their theses and hypotheses in terms of transnational and post national forces. This collection is exciting and inspiring."
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ISBN
9781442649149
Publisert
2017-11-02
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University of Toronto Press
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600 gr
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235 mm
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159 mm
Dybde
22 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Helga Mitterbauer is a professor of German literature and holds the Chaire de litérature allemande at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Carrie Smith is the vice dean of the Faculty of Arts and a professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta.