Manfred Weinberg

Stepán Zbytovsky

Irina Wutsdorff

»Tschechen, Deutsche, Juden« (M. Brod) – in der Darstellung des Zusammenlebens im Prag des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts überwog bisher im Gefolge von Pavel Eisners Diagnose eines »dreifachen Ghettos« die Tendenz zu starken Grenzziehungen. Demgegenüber orientierten sich die Arbeitstreffen des Forschungsverbunds »Prag als Knotenpunkt europäischer Moderne(n)« an neueren Theorien von Interkulturalität sowie zur sozialen und kulturellen Konstruktion von Räumen. Dieser Band dokumentiert, wie dadurch die diskursive Dynamik in den Vordergrund rückt, von der damals kollektive wie individuelle Identitätsbildungsprozesse sowie die Herausbildung literarischer Kommunikationsgemeinschaften geprägt waren.

Interkulturelle Perspektiven auf Raum, Identität und Literatur

Prager Moderne(n)

Schamma Schahadat

Michał Mrugalski

Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol’ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisée – the history of translations, transformations, and migrations – that conditioned its relationship with the West.

Irina Wutsdorff

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