Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses Since 1918 : With a Foreword by Christoph Augustynowicz

In 1918 the Danube Monarchy ceased to exist and its provinces became parts of the Monarchy's successor states, which increasingly assumed the character of nation-states. The regimes of these countries were usually oblivious and/or hostile to remnants of the erstwhile Austrian rule due to ideological reasons: they treated them as traces of a superimposed imperial power and an alien – democratic, pluralistic, liberal – tradition. Notwithstanding that fact, erasing the Habsburg Empire from maps of Europe did not entail the entire cancelation of its legacy on the former Habsburg territories. Although officially neglected or suppressed, this legacy made itself felt, overtly or tacitly, in discourses present in the public sphere of the countries that superseded the Monarchy. Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Body Introduction Alois Woldan: Jan Nepomucen Kamiński’s Helena or Schiller in Galicia Kamiński, a Lviv Playwright Körner, a Forgotten German Author From “Hedwig” to “Helena” Koliyivshchyna as a Problem of Historic Memory “Helena's” Echo: “Wanda Suchorowska” Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature Nadja Weck: Lviv's Central Railway Station and its Fate after 1914 Introduction Devastation of Lviv's Central Railway Station during the War Reconstruction after the Second World War Lviv's Railway Station in Literature Alexander Granach's Autobiography Da geht ein Mensch / There Goes an Actor (1945): Lviv's Railway Station as a Symbol of Awakening and Emancipation Józef Wittlin's Mój Lwów (1946) / My Lwów (2016): Lviv's Railway Station as Refuge Granach's vs. Wittlin's Station Building Summary Bibliography Sources and Primary Literature Secondary Literature Jagoda Wierzejska: The Idea of Galicia in the Interwar Polish Discourse, 1918–1939 Introduction: The Idea of Galicia Initial Disintegration of the Idea of Galicia: The Contested Brotherhood The Destruction of the Idea of Galicia: The Network of Enemies The Politicization of the Battle of Lemberg Narrative: The Idea of Polishness Counter-Discourse: The Remains of the Idea of Galicia Conclusions Bibliography Sources and Primary Literature Secondary Literature Ievgeniia Voloshchuk: Characters of Eccentrics from Galicia in the German-Language Prose of the Interwar Period The Myth and Its Heroes The Borderland Galicia and Its Borders Where Do the Galician Eccentrics Come From? From “Strict and Only God Jehovah” to the “Glittering and Thousandfold Polytheism” of the Books From “Old Jehovah” to “Mighty Leviathan” From the Jewish Butcher's Knife to the Terror of Christian Utopia Postscript Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature Francisca Solomon: Bukovina's Yiddish Landscape in Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Context: Historical, Cultural, and Literary Interrelations Introduction The “Yiddish” Bukovina: Important Historical and Cultural Reference Points (Under Habsburg Rule) The Downfall of Habsburg Monarchy as Motivation for the Crystallization and Blooming of the Yiddish Cultural Landscape (the Interwar Period) The Healing Power of Language: Yiddish as the Vehicle that Secures the Identity of “Bukovinness” (after the Second World War) Conclusion Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature Danuta Sosnowska: Traces of the Habsburg Heritage: Bohemia's Multicultural and Multilingual Tradition as a Source of the Multilingual Phenomenon in the Czech Literature in Exile Multicultural and Multilingual Tradition of Bohemia Nationalist Historical Narratives The Fall of Habsburg Monarchy and the Ambivalent Victory of 1918: Habsburg Heritage Today Multilingual Czech Migrant Literature Conclusion Bibliography Sources and Primary Literature Secondary Literature Halyna Witoszynska: Public Parks and Gardens of Interwar Lviv in the Autobiographical Discourse after Second World War: Between Habsburg Tradition, National Aspirations, and Private Memories Introduction Parks and Gardens of Interwar Lviv: An Erased Habsburg Legacy? Yezuyitskyy Horod / Ogród Jezuicki Stryyskyy Park / Stryjski Park Vysokyy Zamok / Wysoki Zamek Conclusions Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature Magdalena Baran-Szołtys: Traveling to Post-Galicia and Uncovering the Habsburgian Past Introduction Establishing the Habsburg Galicia The Multiethnic and Multinational Heritage Rediscovery and Reimagination Exploration and Instrumentalization Reflections and Irony Conclusion Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature Larissa Cybenko: The Geopoetics of the Habsburg Heritage: Yurii Andrukhovych's Overcoming of Political Restrictions and Divisions Introduction The Geopoetic Turn toward Galician Space Fictional Regional Studies in the Essays and Novels about Former Galicia Geopoetic Approaches to Habsburg Heritage Geopoetic Methods in Twelve Circles Topography of Galicia's Destruction in the Novel Lovers of Justice Geoculture Studies of the “Central Europe” Symbolical Meaning from “Galicia” to “Central Europe” Conclusion Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature Katarzyna Kotyńska: From Intellectual Trends to a Business Model: Habsburg Monarchy in Modern Ukrainian Culture Introduction Post-Habsburg Nostalgia: Between Arts and Politics Modern Detective Novels about the Good Old Times Summary Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature Authors Index of Persons Index of Concepts and Locations