Narrative(s) in conflict / edited by Wolfgang Müller-Funk and Clemens Ruthner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Broken narratives : modernism and the tradition of rupture / Wolfgang Müller-Funk -- Discourses on the Ottomans in old Hungarian literature : observations on a volatile image / Andrea Seidler -- Ivan Mauranic's The death of Smail-Aga Cengic (1846) : the controversial reception of an epic poem / Davor Dukic -- Conflicting narratives : notes on the compositional nature of poems in prose / Rüdiger Görner -- Conflict, narration, and satirical violence in Karl Kraus' Die Fackel / António Sousa Ribeiro -- Peace talks between image and word : Carl Einstein's struggle for a non-totalizing ekphrasis / Nicola Creighton -- The importance of conflict elsewhere : Francis Stuart's and Hugo Hamilton's literary engagements with Germany and the Second World War / Dorothea Depner -- Damaged words and closed houses : everyday world and memory narratives in Georges Perec / Johanna-Charlotte Horst -- The sovereign's broken voice : on the cinematic politics of representation / Isabel Capeloa Gil -- "Hurt identities?" : the postwar Bosnian narrative of self-victimization / Ana Mijic -- Collateral roadkill : the conflicted death of "Central Europe" en route to Sarajevo and Brussels / Clemens Ruthner -- Stories as "weapons of mass destruction" : George W. Bush's narratives of crisis as paradigm examples of ways of world- and conflict-making (and conflict-solving?) / Ansgar and Vera Nünning.

"These are the results of a workshop held at Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with the "Broken Narratives" project (Univ. of Vienna), exploring the interaction between narrative and conflict. It tries to develop a narrative theory of culture, revolving around the term of 'rupture', before presenting case studies from various fields in literature and culture, from Habsburg Austria to the wars and genocides of the 20th century up to 9/11"--