History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe : Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Marcel Cornis-Pope (Author), John Neubauer (Author)
Annotation The third volume in the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe focuses on the making and remaking of those institutional structures that engender and regulate the creation, distribution, and reception of literature. The focus here is not so much on shared institutions but rather on such region-wide analogous institutional processes as the national awakening, the modernist opening, and the communist regimentation, the canonization of texts, and censorship of literature. These processes, which took place in all of the region s cultures, were often asynchronous and subjected to different local conditions. The volume s premise is that the national awakening and institutionalization of literature were symbiotically interrelated in East-Central Europe. Each national awakening involves a language renewal, an introduction of the vernacular and its literature in schools and universities, the creation of an infrastructure for the publication of books and journals, clashes with censorship, the founding of national academies, libraries, and theaters, a (re)construction of national folklore, and the writing of histories of the vernacular literature. The four parts of this volume are titled: (1) Publishing and Censorship, (2) Theater as a Literary Institution, (3) Forging Primal Pasts: The Uses of Folk Poetry, and (4) Literary Histories: Itineraries of National Self-images
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1. PREFACE; 2. LIST OF VISUAL MATERIALS; 3. GENERAL INTRODUCTION (by Neubauer, John); 4. Part I. PUBLISHING AND CENSORSHIP; 5. Introduction (by Neubauer, John); 6. 1. Publishing; 7. The Cosmopolitanism of Moderni revue (1894-1925) (by Stewart, Neil); 8. The Uncompromising Standards of Nyugat (1908-1941) (by Szili, Jozsef); 9. A Contest within Romanian Modernism: Sburatorul vs. Gandirea (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 10. Krugovi: A Croatian Opening (1952-58) (by Brlek, Tomislav); 11. Underground Publishing in Estonia under Soviet Censorship (by Unt, Kersti); 12. Slovak Journals between Languages and against Censorship (by Roberts, Dagmar); 13. The National Role of the Albanian Literary Journals (by Elsie, Robert); 14. 2. Censorship; 15. The Laws and Practices of Censorship in Bohemia (by Culik, Jan); 16. Censorship: A Case Study of Bohumil Hrabal's Jarmilka (by Mercks, Kees); 17. Religious and Political Censorship in Slovakia (by Roberts, Dagmar); 18. The Introduction of Communist Censorship in Hungary 1945-49) (by Szegedy-Maszak, Mihaly); 19. Strategies against Censorship in Soviet Lithuania (1944-90) (by Kelertas, Violeta); 20. Getting Around Polish Censorship: 1968-89 (by Bolecki, Wlodimierz); 21. Censorship after Independence: the Case of Aleksander Pelecis (by Jirgens, Karl E.); 22. Part II. THEATER AS A LITERARY INSTITUTION; 23. General Introduction (by Klaic, Dragan); 24. 1. Professionalization and Institutionalization in the Service of a National Awakening; 25. Introduction (by Klaic, Dragan); 26. Building a(s) Theater: the Pesti Magyar Szinhaz in 1837 (by Imre, Zoltan); 27. Slovenia: from Jesuit Performance to Opera (by Kralj, Lado); 28. Czech Theater: A Paradoxical Prop of the National Revival (by Hucin, Ondrej); 29. Slovakia: Theater Starts as an Amateur Endeavor (by Roberts, Dagmar); 30. Polish Drama Sustains Spiritual Unity in a Divided Country (by Adamczyk-Garbowska, Monika); 31. Lithuania: School, Court, and Clandestine Performances (by Girdzijauskaite, Audrone); 32. Politics and Artistic Autonomy in Estonian Theater (by Rahesoo, Jaak); 33. Theater Speaks Many Languages in Romania (by Popescu, Marian); 34. From the Citalista to the National Theater in Bulgaria (by Spassova-Dikova, Joanna); 35. 2. Modernism: the Director Rules; 36. Introduction (by Klaic, Dragan); 37. The European Horizons of Stjepan Miletic (by Batusic, Nikola); 38. Reform within: the Thalia Tarsasag 1904-1908 (by Imre, Zoltan); 39. Modernist Inroads into Czech Theater (by Hucin, Ondrej); 40. Fuzzy Borderlines: the Capeks' Robots, Insects, Women, and Men (by Ambros, Veronika); 41. The Interbellum Emancipation of the Slovak Stage (by Roberts, Dagmar); 42. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism Clash on the Romanian Stage (by Popescu, Marian); 43. Institutionalization and Innovation in the Bulgarian Theater (by Spassova-Dikova, Joanna); 44. Polish Modernist Drama (by Wachocka, Ewa); 45. Stage and Stage Design in Polish Modernist Theater (by Udalska, Eleonora); 46. Popular Amusement and Avant-garde in the Polish Cabaret (by Fox, Dorota); 47. Yiddish Theater (by Steinlauf, Michael); 48. The Stage in Independent Lithuania (by Girdzijauskaite, Audrone); 49. Kicking with Poetry: Female Trailblazers on the Latvian Stage (by Rubess, Banuta); 50. The Ebbs and Flows of Modernist Energy in Estonian Theater (by Rahesoo, Jaak); 51. Branko Gavella: The Director as Thinker (by Petlevski, Sibila); 52. 3. Theater under Socialism; 53. Introduction (by Klaic, Dragan); 54. The Short Interlude of a Liberal Czech Theater (by Vodicka, Libor); 55. Slovak Drama: Reconciling the Absurd with Socialism (by Roberts, Dagmar); 56. Communism and After in Romanian Theater (by Popescu, Marian); 57. Mandatory Socialist Models vs. Stylist Eclecticism on the Bulgarian Stage (by Spassova-Dikova, Joanna); 58. Enver-Hoxha Dictatorship Stifles Albanian Theater (by Elsie, Robert); 59. From Provincial Backwaters to Budapest and World Reputation (by Berczes, Laszlo); 60. After Witkacy and Gombrowicz: Faces of Postwar-Polish Drama (by Wachocka, Ewa); 61. Wyspianski's Offsprings (by Udalska, Eleonora); 62. The Visual Richness of the Polish Stage (by Sajkiewicz, Violetta); 63. Independence Brings International Recognition to Lithuanian Directors (by Girdzijauskaite, Audrone); 64. Estonian Theater Loosens the Soviet Straightjacket (by Rahesoo, Jaak); 65. Ideological Critique and Moral Rectitude in Slovene Dramas (by Kralj, Lado); 66. Ingenious Dramatic Strategies Reach across the Yugoslav Theater Space (by Jovicevic, Aleksandra); 67. Epilogue: After Socialism (by Klaic, Dragan); 68. Part III. FORGING PRIMAL PASTS: THE USES OF FOLKLORE; 69. Introduction: Folklore and National Awakening (by Neubauer, John); 70. Levels of Institutionalization in Estonian Folklore (by Valk, Ulo); 71. Mythologizing Contemporary Baltic Consciousness (by Bojtar, Endre); 72. National and International Traits in the Latvian Trickster Velns (by Jirgens, Karl E.); 73. The Ideal of Folk Culture in the Literature of the Czech National Rebirth (by Berkes, Tamas); 74. Folklore in the Making of Slovak Literature (by Roberts, Dagmar); 75. The Question of Folklore in Romanian Literary Culture (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 76. The Heidenrosleinkrawall (The Row about the Wild Roses): an 1864 Debate on the Origins of Folk Ballads (by Voigt, Vilmos); 77. Folklore as a Means to Demonstrate a Nation's Existence: The Bulgarian Case (by Hranova, Albena); 78. The Rediscovery of Folk Literature in Albania (by Elsie, Robert); 79. "Sons of Black Death": The Semantics of Foreignness in Twentieth-Century Bulgarian and Macedonian Writings (by Sujecka, Jolanta); 80. Part IV. LITERARY HISTORIES AND TEXTBOOKS; 81. Introduction (by Neubauer, John); 82. Shifting Ideologies in Estonia's Literary Histories, Textbooks, and Anthologies (by Annus, Epp); 83. Latvian Literary Histories and Textbooks (by Misane, Agita); 84. Sorrows and Glories of a Nation's Soul: Polish Literary Histories (by Jastrzebska, Jolanta); 85. Nineteenth-Century Czech Literary History, National Revival, and the Forged Manuscripts (by Pynsent, Robert B.); 86. Overcoming Czech and Hungarian Perspectives in Writing Slovak Literary Histories (by Roberts, Dagmar); 87. The Narrowing Scope of Hungarian Literary Histories (by Neubauer, John); 88. The Career of Latecomers: Romanian Literary Histories (by Spiridon, Monica); 89. Conceiving of a Croatian Literary Canon, 1900-50 (by Ivic, Nenad); 90. Serbia: the Widening Rift between Criticism and Literary Histories (by Slapsak, Svetlana); 91. Albanian Literary History: A Communist Primeur (by Elsie, Robert); 92. National Identity and Textbooks of Literary History: the Case of Bulgaria (by Kiossev, Alexander); 93. Pitfalls in Writing a Regional Literary History of East-Central Europe (by Bojtar, Endre); 94. WORKS CITED; 95. APPENDIX; 96. List of Contributors; 97. Table of Contents, Vol. 1; 98. Table of Contents, Vol. 2; 99. Gazetteer; 100. INDEX of East-Central European Names