The making and remaking of literary institutions / edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornis-Pope, Marcel.

Neubauer, John, 1933-

Series:

History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history--Europe, Eastern.

Literature and history.

East European literature--History and criticism.

East European literature.

Europe, Eastern--History.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

xii, 522 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The third volume in the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe focuses on the making and remaking of those institutional structures that engender and regulate the creation, distribution, and reception of literature. The focus here is not so much on shared institutions but rather on such region-wide analogous institutional processes as the national awakening, the modernist opening, and the communist regimentation, the canonization of texts, and censorship of literature. These processes, which took place in all of the region's cultures, were often asynchronous and subjected to different local conditions. The volume's premise is that the national awakening and institutionalization of literature were symbiotically interrelated in East-Central Europe. Each national awakening involves a language renewal, an introduction of the vernacular and its literature in schools and universities, the creation of an infrastructure for the publication of books and journals, clashes with censorship, the founding of national academies, libraries, and theaters, a (re)construction of national folklore, and the writing of histories of the vernacular literature. The four parts of this volume are titled: (1) Publishing and Censorship, (2) Theater as a Literary Institution, (3) Forging Primal Pasts: The Uses of Folk Poetry, and (4) Literary Histories: Itineraries of National Self-images.

Contents:

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III : The making and remaking of literary institutions

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Visual Material

General Introduction

Part I. Publishing and Censorship

1. Publishing

2. Censorship

Part II. Theater as a Literary Institution

1. Professionalization and Institutionalization in the Service of a National Awakening

2. Modernism: The Director Rules

3. Theater under Socialism

Part III. Forging Primal Pasts: The Uses of Folklore

Part IV. Literary Histories: Itineraries of National Self-Images

WORKS CITED

Appendix

List of Contributors to Volume 3

Table of contents, Volume I

Table of Contents Volume II

Gazetteer

Index of East-Central European Names

The series Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612154478

9781282154476

1282154478

9789027292353

9027292353

OCLC:

705531242