Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000

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