title: The Postmodern Baroque: Bruce Chatwin’s Utz and British Fiction on East-Central Europe at the Time of the 1989 Political Changes
abstract: significant elements of the Postmodern too, I intend to investigate the relationship of the East-Central European Baroque and the Postmodern as a general cultural condition portrayed in British novels about the region.Beside Postmodern textual features of the analysed novels, they also depict an East-Central Europe that is Postmodern and Baroque at the same time.I call this cultural image of East-Central Europe the 'Postmodern Baroque.'To scrutinize the concept of the Postmodern Baroque, I wish 