Table of Contents

1. Editors' Preface; 2. Preface by the General Editor of the Literary History Project; 3. Note on Documentation and Translation; 4. In Preparation; 5. General introduction (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 6. Geography and borders (by Magocsi, Paul Robert); 7. Part I: Nodes of political time; 8. 1989; 9. From resistance to reformulation (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 10. 1989 in Poland: Continuity and Caesura (by Bolecki, Wlodimierz); 11. Reversals of the postmodern and the late Soviet simulacrum in the Baltic Countries - with exemplifications from Estonian literature (by Annus, Epp); 12. Models of literary and cultural identity on the margins of (post)modernity: The case of pre-1989 Romania (by Spiridon, Monica); 13. Quoting instead of living: Postmodern literature before and after the changes in East-Central Europe (by Krasztev, Peter); 14. 1956/1968; 15. Revolt, suppression, and liberalization in Post-Stalinist East-Central Europe (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 16. 1948; 17. Introduction: The Culture of Revolutionary Terror (by Longinovic, Tomislav Z.); 18. Romanian literature under Stalinism (by Guran, Letitia); 19. The retraumatization of the 1948 communist purges in Yugoslav literary culture (by Kirin, Renata Jambresic); 20. Heritage and inheritors: The literary canon in totalitarian Bulgaria (by Kiossev, Alexander); 21. 1945 (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 22. 1918; 23. Overview (by Neubauer, John); 24. Women writers and the war experience: 1918 as transition (by Higonnet, Margaret R.); 25. The footsteps of Gavrilo Princip: The 1914 Sarajevo assault in fiction, history, and three monuments (by Snel, Guido); 26. Beyond Vienna 1900: Habsburg identities in Central Europe (by Arens, Katherine); 27. The Great War as a monstrous carnival: Jaroslav Hasek's Svejk (by Ambros, Veronika); 28. Polish literature of World War I: Consciousness of a breakthrough (by Kielak, Dorota); 29. 1867/1878/1881 (by Neubauer, John); 30. 1848 (by Neubauer, John); 31. 1776/1789; 32. Introduction (by Neubauer, John); 33. The spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian declarations of philosophical independence (by Wolff, Larry); 34. The cultural legacy of empires in Eastern Europe (by Slapsak, Svetlana); 35. The Jacobin Movement in Hungary (1792-95) (by Voigt, Vilmos); 36. 1789 and Bulgarian Culture (by Peleva, Inna); 37. Part II: Histories of literary form; 38. Shifting periods and trends; 39. Between Classicism and Romanticism: The year 1820 in Polish literature (by Koropeckyj, Roman); 40. From modernization to modernist literature (by Krasztev, Peter); 41. Czech Decadence (by Pynsent, Robert B.); 42. The Avant-garde in East-Central European literature (by Bojtar, Endre); 43. Shifting genres; 44. Literary reportage: Between and beyond art and fact (by Kuprel, Diana); 45. Gardens of the mind, places for doubt: Fictionalized autobiography in East-Central Europe (by Snel, Guido); 46. Subversion and self-assertion: The role of Kotliarevshchyna in Russian-Ukrainian literary relations (by Grabowicz, George G.); 47. Poeticizing prose in Croatian and Serbian Modernism (by Masek, Miro); 48. Stanislav Vinaver: Subversion of, or intervention in literary history? (by Slapsak, Svetlana); 49. The birth of modern literary theory in East-Central Europe (by Tihanov, Galin); 50. Polish poetry in the twentieth century (by Nieukerken, Arent van); 51. Polish-Jewish literature: An outline (by Adamczyk-Garbowska, Monika); 52. Shifting perspectives and voices in the Romanian novel (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 53. Forms of the Bulgarian novel (by Penchev, Boyko); 54. The historical novel; 55. Introduction (by Neubauer, John); 56. The Hungarian historical novel in regional context (by Hites, Sandor); 57. Recent historical novels and historiographic metafiction in the Balkans (by Lukic, Jasmina); 58. The historical novel in Slovenian literature (by Grdina, Igor); 59. The search for a modern, problematizing historical consciousness: Romanian historical fiction and family cycles (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 60. The family novel in East-Central Europe: Illustrated with works by Isaac B. Singer and Wlodzimierz Odojewski (by Mitosek, Zofia); 61. Histories of multimedia constructions; 62. Introduction (by Neubauer, John); 63. National operas in East-Central Europe (by Neubauer, John); 64. East-Central European cinema and literary history (by Iordanova, Dina); 65. The silent tale of fury: Stalinism in Yugoslav cinema (by Dakovic, Nevena); 66. Central Europe's catastrophes on film: The case of Istvan Szabo (by Arens, Katherine); 67. Works cited; 68. Index of East-Central-European Names: Volume 1