A Territorial History of Central European Literature as a Literary and Cultural Legacy of the Habsburg Monarchy
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Keywords

Putna
Central Europe
Austria-Hungary
history of literature
memory

How to Cite

Németh Vítová, L. (2021). A Territorial History of Central European Literature as a Literary and Cultural Legacy of the Habsburg Monarchy. Porównania, 29(2), 443–453. https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.25

Abstract

Martin C. Putna in 2018 published Obrazy z kulturních dějin Střední Evropy [Images from the Cultural History of Central Europe], in which he presents a spectacular panorama of the multiculturalism, multilingualism, and multiconfessionalism of the individual regions of Central Europe (which he understands as the cultural legacy of Austria-Hungary) in order to sketch their "histories of ideas" that allow for a fuller reflection on the past and thus for building a future based on these (forgotten or sometimes suppressed) experiences.  By proposing a territorial history of literature, the author gives a new direction to the closed-circle discussion of the construct of Central Europe: the essayistic images - despite their fragmentary and subjective readings - are clearly a step towards treating literature and culture as a medium of memory, counting on the causal effect of the memory they retain (after Astrid Erll genitivus objectivus).

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