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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.
List of contents
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
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Edited by Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei
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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.
