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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452668603321

Titolo

The fall of the iron curtain and the culture of Europe / / edited by Peter I. Barta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-55002-1

1-299-46940-X

1-135-92041-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; ; 44

Altri autori (Persone)

BartaPeter I

Disciplina

940.56

Soggetti

Post-communism - Europe

Electronic books.

Europe Civilization 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Katalin Bogyay -- New paradigms in changing spaces: an introduction / Peter I. Barta -- The wall has fallen on all of us / Dubravka Ugresic -- Twenty years after the curtain fell: a personal account by an Austrian / Gabriele Matzner-Holzer -- The rediscovery of Central Europe in the 1980s / Catherine Horel -- Gulfs and gaps--Prague and Lisbon--1989 and 2009 / Wolfgang Müller-Funk -- Borders in mind or how to re-invent identities / Rüdiger Görner -- The iron curtain, the wall and performative "Verfremdung" / Annelis Kuhlmann -- The re-emergence of national cultures following independence in the Baltic States / Charles de Chassiron -- Explosions, shifts and backtracking in post-Soviet fiction / Hélène Mélat -- Neither East nor West: polyphony and deterritorialization in contemporary European fiction / Maria Rubins -- The fall of the iron curtain and the new linguistic landscape of East-Central Europe / Michael Moser.

Sommario/riassunto

The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new narratives about national, individual and European



identities that have emerged in literature, theatre and other cultural media, investigates the impact of the re-unification of the continent on the mental landscape of Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe and Russia, and explores the new borders in th