Great immortality : studies on European cultural sainthood / edited by Marijan Dović, Jón Karl Helgason.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dović, Marijan, editor.

Jón Karl Helgason, 1965- editor.

Series:

National Cultivation of Culture 18.

National cultivation of culture, 1876-5645 ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European poetry--History and criticism.

European poetry.

Nationalism in literature.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

In Great Immortality , twenty scholars from considerably different cultural backgrounds explore the ways in which certain poets, writers, and artists in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory. Through individual case studies, many of the contributors expand and challenge the concepts of cultural sainthood and canonization as developed by Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason in National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (Brill, 2017). Even though the major focus of the book is the nineteenth-century cults of national poets, the volume examines a wide variety of cases in a very broad temporal and geographical framework – from Dante and Petrarch to the most recent attempts to sanctify artists by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and from the rise of a medieval Icelandic author of sagas to the veneration of a poet and national leader in Georgia. Contributors are: Bojan Baskar, Marijan Dović, Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, David Fishelov, Jernej Habjan, Simon Halink, Jón Karl Helgason, Harald Hendrix, Andraž Jež, Marko Juvan, Alenka Koron, Roman Koropeckyj, Joep Leerssen, Christian Noack, Jaume Subirana, Magí Sunyer, Andreas Stynen, Andrei Terian, Bela Tsipuria, and Luka Vidmar.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

From a Monument in Ljubljana to the History and Theory of Cultural Saints: a Preface

Cultural Sainthood and Great Immortality: an Introduction / Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason

Sacral States: the Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular / Joep Leerssen

Framing the Bones of Dante and Petrarch: Literary Cults and Scientific Discourses / Harald Hendrix

Taming a Romantic: the Canonization of Adam Mickiewicz / Roman Koropeckyj

The Riddles of the Shevchenko Cult / Christian Noack

Hagiographic Discourse in the Early Biographies of France Prešeren / Alenka Koron

Stanko Vraz and the Missing Saints of the Illyrian Movement / Andraž Jež

Bialik the Prophet and the Modern Hebrew Canon / David Fishelov

Jacint Verdaguer, a Catalan Cultural Saint / Magí Sunyer and and Jaume Subirana

“Altars of the Flemish Movement”: Tombstones and Rituals of Nation-Building / Andreas Stynen

Hero or Traitor? The Cultural Canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Beyond / Simon Halink

Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia’s Cultural Saint and a Saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church / Bela Tsipuria

The Third Canonization of Njegoš, the National Poet of Montenegro / Bojan Baskar

Prophet, Martyr, Saint: Mihai Eminescu’s Lateral Canonization / Andrei Terian

Antoni Gaudí and Jože Plečnik: Two Architects on the Path from Cultural Canonization to Catholic Beatification / Luka Vidmar

From the Culture of Saints to the Saints of Culture: the Saint and the Writer between Life and Work / Jernej Habjan

Back Matter

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004395138

900439513X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004395138 DOI