The contribution discusses key methodological innovations in the first three volumes of History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. While in representing individual literary cultures, such as Slovene, details and overall balance are sometimes quite contestable, the general aim of this ambitious project, namely the shift from isolated national perspectives towards the post-national view which reveals striking structural similarities among many cultures in the region, seems to be well achieved.