History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypesMarcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer 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. |
Contents
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The Foundational Truth of a Dual Lyre | 86 |
A Conquest of the Slovene Parnassus | 97 |
The Icon of the Poet with the Icon | 110 |
How did the Golems and Robots enter stage and screen and leave Prague? | 308 |
Vámbéry Stoker and Dracula | 321 |
Lasting legacies | 333 |
Czech feminist antisemitism | 344 |
Figuring the other in Nineteenthcentury Czech literature | 367 |
Killing with metaphors | 378 |
Love magic and life | 391 |
The alienated and uprooted Tlushim | 402 |
Hristo Botev and the Necessity of National Icons | 117 |
Bialik Poet of the People | 128 |
Introduction | 133 |
Family trauma and domestic violence in twentiethcentury Estonian literature | 140 |
In search of the mothers voice | 154 |
Daughter figures in Latvian womens autobiographical writing of the 1990s | 167 |
Figuring the motherland and staging the party father in Bulgarian literature | 176 |
Gendering the body of the Lithuanian nation in Maironiss poetry | 183 |
František Palacký the father figure of Czech historiography and nation building | 193 |
Miloš Crnjanskis homecoming to a migrating national family | 211 |
Introduction | 221 |
Women at the foundation of Romanian literary culture | 229 |
Constructing a woman author within the literary canon | 241 |
Gender and war in South Slavic literatures | 253 |
Womens memory and an alternative Kosovo myth | 261 |
Womens corpuses corpses or cultural bodies | 271 |
Berta BojetuBoetas feminist dystopias | 281 |
Introduction | 289 |
How did the Golem get to Prague? | 296 |
The rural outlaws of EastCentral Europe | 407 |
Juraj Jánošík | 441 |
Shifting images of the Bulgarian haiduti | 457 |
Introduction | 461 |
Remembrances of the past and the present | 463 |
Goli Otok literature | 478 |
Traumas of World War II | 484 |
Performing identity | 504 |
Introduction | 515 |
Joseph Eötvös | 521 |
On the ethnic border | 527 |
Two regionalists of the Interwar Period | 539 |
Journeys to the other half of the continent | 549 |
EastCentral European literature after 1989 | 561 |
Note on Documentation and Translation | 631 |
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List of Contributors to Volume 4 | 707 |
Errata for Volumes 13 | 709 |
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