Sabine Egger

John McDonagh

The cultural, political, social and economic interaction between Ireland and Poland has a long and complex history. This volume hopes to contribute to an emerging debate around the issues concerned by looking at alternative frameworks for understanding the relationship between the two countries. While the topic has attracted growing interest among researchers from various disciplines in recent years, this is the first book dedicated to exploring this cultural relationship in the context of Polish migration to Ireland. The essays in this collection tease out significant strands that connect the two countries, including literature, visual media, education, politics and history. Examining Polish-Irish relations in their wider historical and cultural context allows for new definitions of Irish, Polish and European identities in the New Europe. Especially important in view of the challenges and opportunities that a multicultural Ireland faces after the hard landing of the Celtic Tiger, this book provides new perspectives on a substantial and vibrant cross-cultural relationship.

Polish-Irish Encounters in the Old and New Europe

Stefan Hajduk

Britta C. Jung

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entwarf Johannes Bobrowski mit seinem ‚Sarmatien‘ einen literarischen Raum, der einen überraschend zeitgemäßen Orientierungspunkt für die Diskussion ‚östlicher‘ europäischer Grenzräume im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert bietet. In der aktuellen Forschung ist eine Infragestellung von Grenzen durch Begriffe wie Liminalität (Turner), dritter Raum (Bhabha) oder Ähnlichkeit (Bhatti) zu beobachten. In den hier versammelten Beiträgen geht es darum, wie Grenzräume in deutschsprachigen literarischen Texten inszeniert, intermedial reflektiert oder dekonstruiert werden, und welche Rolle das innerhalb eines bestimmten Feldes oder Diskurses spielt. Der Vergleich von Werken Musils, Celans, Sebalds oder Trojanows mit Beispielen aus der russischen, kasachischen, polnischen oder tschechischen Literatur (u.a. Babel, Tokarzcuk, Belger) eröffnet komparatistische und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf ein über Europa hinausreichendes Panorama literarischer Grenzräume. In the aftermath of WWII, Johannes Bobrowski’s Sarmatia created a poetic borderland space that challenged existing borders in Central and Eastern Europe – and has continued to do so in the 20th and 21st century. Recent scholarship has increasingly begun to question borders by introducing terms such as liminality (Turner), third space (Bhabha), or similarity (Bhatti). Individual chapters in this volume discuss how borderland spaces are staged, intermedially reflected, or deconstructed in German-language literature, and what impact this might have within a particular field or discourse. By comparing works of Musil, Celan, Sebald or Trojanow with Russian, Kazakh, Polish or Czech literature (e.g. Babel, Tokarczuk, Belger), comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives are opened on a vibrant panorama of literary spaces reaching beyond the borders of Europe.

Vom Grenzland im Osten über Johannes Bobrowskis Utopie zur Ästhetik des Grenzraums. From the Borderland in the East and Johannes Bobrowski’s Utopia to a Border Aesthetics

Sarmatien – Germania Slavica – Mitteleuropa. Sarmatia – Germania Slavica – Central Europe

Margaret Mills Harper

Catherine E. Foley

A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers and scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, dance documentation, film, and architecture from the 1920s to today. The contributors discuss modernism, with a specific focus on modern dance, and its impact on different art forms and discourses in Irish and German culture. Within this framework, dance is regarded both as a motif and a specific form of spatial movement, which allows for the transgression of medial and disciplinary boundaries as well as gender, social, or cultural differences. Part 1 of the collection focuses on Irish-German cultural connections made through dance, while part 2 studies the role of dance in Irish and German literature, visual art, and architecture.

Connections in Motion

Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture

Patrick Studer

Papers presented at a conference held Mar. 2004, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.

Irish Perspectives on Swiss Culture and Literature

From the Margins to the Centre

Erinnerung an den "europäischen Osten" in der Lyrik Johannes Bobrowskis

Dialog mit dem Fremden

Sabine Egger

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