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.
Introduction by:
Peter Waite
Edited by:
Helga Mitterbauer,
Carrie Smith
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 159mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781442649149
ISBN 10: 1442649143
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 02 November 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Crossings and Encounters Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei Part One: 1900 1. Beyond Aesthetic Boarders: Theory—Media—Case Study Helga Mitterbauer 2. The Aesthetics of Change: Women Writers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Agatha Schwartz and Helga Thorson 3. Border, Trans-Border, and Unification—Music and Its Divergent Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Territories Gregor Kokorz 4. History without End(s): The Aesthetics and Politics of the Reading Play Imre Szeman 5. Kitchen Stories: Literary and Architectural Reflections on Modern Kitchens in Central Europe Sarah McGaughey Part Two: 2000 6. Spaces of Unhomeliness: Re-Reading Post-Imperial Urban Heterotopias in East Central Europe Irene Sywenky 7. Interdependences: Migration, (Trans-)Cultural Codes and the Writing of Central Europe in Texts by Doron Rabinovici, Julya Rabinowich, and Vladimir Vertlib Sandra Vlasta 8. Cultures of Memory, Migration, and Masculinity: Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen Michael Boehringer 9. Remixing Central European Culture: The Case of Laibach Stefan Simonek 10. Bottled Messages for Europe’s Future?: The Danube in Contemporary Transnational Cinema Matthew D. Miller 11. Beyond Central Europe: Confluence and the Cosmopolitical Public Intellectual Carrie Smith-Prei
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.
Reviews for Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000
"""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."" --Geoffrey C. Howes, College of Arts and Sciences, Bowling Green State University"
