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Book SynopsisCrossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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: Dimitre 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
