Comparative Central European Culture

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Comparative Central European Culture Comparative Cultural Studies Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Series Editor Comparative Cultural Studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in all of its products and processes. The framework is built on tenets of the disciplines of comparative literature and cultural studies and on notions borrowed from a range of thought such as (radical) constructivism , communication theories, systems theories, and literary and culture theory. In comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method as well as application and where attention is on the how rather than on the what. Colleagues interested in publishing in the series are invited to contact the editor, Steven Tötösy, at . Comparative Central European Culture Edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana Copyright 2002 by Purdue University. All rights reserved. The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Comparative Central European culture / edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek p. cm.—(Comparative Cultural Studies) Rev. and expanded versions of papers originally presented at three different conferences held during 1999–2000: the 24th annual conference, American Hungarian Educators’ Association (Cleveland, 1999); Central European Culture Today (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Sept. 1999); annual conference, Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C., 2000). “Selected bibliography for the study of Central European culture”: p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Comparative cultural studies and the study of Central European culture / Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek—A comparative view of modernism in Central European literature / Andrea Fábry—Radnóti, Celan, and aesthetic shifts in Central European Holocaust poetry / Zsuzsanna Ozsváth— Comparative Central European culture: gender in literature and film / Anikó Imre—Austroslovakism in Anton Hykisch’s novel about Maria Theresa / Peter Petro / Milan Kundera and the identity of Central Europe—Politics, history, and public intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 / Katherine Arens—Comparative Central European culture: Austrian and Hungarian cinema today / Catherine Portuges—Comparative Central European culture: Displacements and peripheralities / Roumiana Deltcheva—Central Europe, Jewish family history, and Sunshine / Susan Rubin Suleiman. ISBN 1–55753–240–0 (alk. paper) 1. Europe, Central—Literatures—History and criticism—Congresses. 2. Europe, Central—Intellectual life—20th century—Congresses. 3. Motion pictures—Europe, Central—Congresses. I. Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, 1950– II. Series. PN771.C577 2002 809'.8943—dc21 2001048284 ...