HISTORY OF THE LITERARY CULTURES OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Preface by the General Editor of the Literary History Project -- Note on Documentation and Translation -- In Preparation -- General introduction -- Geography and borders -- Part I -- Introduction to Part I -- 1989. From resistance to reformulation -- 1989 in Poland: Continuity and Caesura -- Reversals of the postmodern and the late Soviet simulacrum in the Baltic Countries - with exemplifications from Estonian literature -- Models of literary and cultural identity on the margins of (post)modernity: The case of pre-1989 Romania -- Quoting instead of living: Postmodern literature before and after the changes in East-Central Europe -- 1956/1968 Revolt, suppression, and liberalization in Post-Stalinist East-Central Europe -- 1948. Introduction: The Culture of Revolutionary Terror -- Romanian literature under Stalinism -- The retraumatization of the 1948 communist purges in Yugoslav literary culture -- Heritage and inheritors: The literary canon in totalitarian Bulgaria -- 1945 -- 1918 Overview -- Women writers and the war experience: 1918 as transition -- The footsteps of Gavrilo Princip: The 1914 Sarajevo assault in fiction, history, and three monuments -- Beyond Vienna 1900: Habsburg identities in Central Europe -- The Great War as a monstrous carnival: Jaroslav Hašek's Švejk -- Polish literature of World War I: Consciousness of a breakthrough -- 1867/1878/1881 -- 1848 -- 1776/1789 Introduction -- The spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian declarations of philosophical independence -- The cultural legacy of empires in Eastern Europe -- The Jacobin Movement in Hungary (1792-95) -- 1776 and 1789 in Slovakia -- 1789 and Bulgarian Culture -- Part II Histories of literary form.

Introduction -- Shifting periods and trends -- Between Classicism and Romanticism: The year 1820 in Polish literature -- From modernization to modernist literature -- Czech Decadence -- The Avant-garde in East-Central European literature -- Shifting genres -- Forms of the Bulgarian novel -- Shifting perspectives and voices in the Romanian novel -- Polish-Jewish literature: An outline -- The Ironic Moralism of Polish poetry in the twentieth century -- The birth of modern literary theory in East-Central Europe -- Stanislav Vinaver: Subversion of, or intervention in literary history? -- Poeticizing prose in Croatian and Serbian Modernism -- Subversion and self-assertion: The role of Kotliarevshchyna in Russian-Ukrainian literary relations -- Gardens of the mind, places for doubt: Fictionalized autobiography in East-Central Europe -- Literary reportage: Between and beyond art and fact -- The historical novel -- The family novel in East-Central Europe: Illustrated with works by Isaac B. Singer and Włodzimierz Odojewski -- The search for a modern, problematizing historical consciousness: Romanian historical fiction and family cycles -- The historical novel in Slovenian literature -- Recent historical novels and historiographic metafiction in the Balkans -- The Hungarian historical novel in regional context -- Introduction -- Histories of multimedia constructions -- Introduction -- National operas in East-Central Europe -- East-Central European cinema and literary history -- The silent tale of fury: Stalinism in Yugoslav cinema -- Central Europe's catastrophes on film: The case of István Szabó -- Works cited -- Index of East-Central-European Names -- List of Contributors to Volume 1 -- The series Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages.