Literary canon formation as nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics : 19th to early 20th century
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Literary canon formation as nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics : 19th to early 20th century
(National cultivation of culture, v. 24)
Brill, c2021
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In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics.The articles focus on the shaping of national identities through literature and analyze the establishment of literary canons by means of language, the role of national poets, and similar topics. Case studies of so-called minor literatures reveal common tendencies in the structure of many national canons, as well as specific responses and creative decisions in nation-building processes. This volume rethinks the relations between literature and nationalism (from the 19th century to present times) and contributes to the field of studies of historical development of nationalism.
Contributors are: Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev, Renata Belicova, Ramune Bleizgiene, Pawel Bukowiec, Anna R. Burzynska, Judit Dobry, Gergely Forizs, Katre Kikas, Aiste Kucinskiene, Helena Markowska-Fulara, Radoslaw Okulicz-Kozaryn, Jurga Sadauskiene, Vaidas Seferis, Viktorija Seina, Brigita Speicyte, Jagoda Wierzejska, and Krystyna Zabawa.
Table of Contents
Content
Editor's Preface
Notes on Contributors
Nation-Building Canons: Historical and Methodological Considerations
Viktorija Seina
Part 1. The Shaping of National, Cultural and Literary Identities
Classicists and the Classics. The Polish Literary Canon in Academia (1800-1830)
Helena Markowska-Fulara
The Concept of Lithuanian Literature in the 19th Century
Brigita Speicyte
Towards an Unofficial Canon. Striving to Strengthen the Lithuanian Cultural Community under Russian Domination in the Mid-19th Century
Radoslaw Okulicz-Kozaryn
The Concept of Lithuanian Folk Song in Lithuanian Folklore 1800-1940
Jurga Sadauskiene
"Who Are You?" "A Little Pole." The Vision of the Nation and Nationality in the Polish Literary Canon for Children on the Threshold of Independence (around 1918)
Krystyna Zabawa
State-Building and Nation-Building: Dimensions of the Myth of the Defense of Lviv in the Polish Literary Canon, 1918-1939
Jagoda Wierzejska
Counter-narratives in Greater Romania: Polemical Social, Political and Cultural Engagement in the Avant-garde Literary Magazine Contimporanul (January-July 1923)
Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev
"The Experience of Change": Hungarian Literature in the First Czechoslovak Republic
Judit Dobry
Part 2. Literary Canonization: Case Studies
Nation-Building or Nation-Bricolage? The Making of a National Poet in 19th-Century Hungary
Gergely Forizs
A National Epic from Below: Kalevipoeg in the Writings of Grassroots Literati
Katre Kikas
The Polish Theater Canon and Comedy - A Complicated Relation
Anna R. Burzynska
Constraints of Canon Constructing. Research into the Paradoxes of Reception of Jo zef Baka's Poetry in Polish Literature and Literary Studies
Pawel Bukowiec
The Borderland between Conflicting Canons: Kristijonas Donelaitis
Vaidas Seferis
The Making of the Lithuanian National Poet: Maironis
Aiste Kucinskiene
Cultivation of New Readers in the Early Criticism of Z emaite 's Works (1895-1915)
Ramune Bleizgiene
Postmodernist Representation of the Central European Multiethnic Milieu. Marek Piac ek: Apolloopera - A Melodrama about Bombing for the Choir, Actor and Trombone
Renata Belicova
Index of Names
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