Literary canon formation as nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics : 19th to early 20th century / edited by Aiste Kucinskiene, Viktorija Seina, Brigita Speicyte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kucinskiene, Aiste, editor.

Seina, Viktorija, editor.

Speicyte, Brigita, editor.

Series:

National cultivation of culture ; Volume 24.

National cultivation of culture ; Volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and literature.

Polish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Polish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, [2021]

Summary:

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 Beličová, Ramunė Bleizgienė, Paweł Bukowiec, Anna R. Burzyńska, Judit Dobry, Gergely Fórizs, Katre Kikas, Aistė Kučinskienė, Helena Markowska-Fulara, Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn, Jurga Sadauskienė, Vaidas Šeferis, Viktorija Šeina, Brigita Speičytė, Jagoda Wierzejska, and Krystyna Zabawa.

Contents:

Editor's Preface

Notes on Contributors

Nation-Building Canons: Historical and Methodological Considerations Viktorija Šeina 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 Speičytė

Towards an Unofficial Canon. Striving to Strengthen the Lithuanian Cultural Community under Russian Domination in the Mid-19th Century Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn

The Concept of Lithuanian Folk Song in Lithuanian Folklore 1800-1940 Jurga Sadauskienė

"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 Fórizs

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. Burzyńska

Constraints of Canon Constructing. Research into the Paradoxes of Reception of Józef Baka's Poetry in Polish Literature and Literary Studies Paweł Bukowiec

The Borderland between Conflicting Canons: Kristijonas Donelaitis Vaidas Šeferis

The Making of the Lithuanian National Poet: Maironis Aistė Kučinskienė

Cultivation of New Readers in the Early Criticism of Žemaitė's Works (1895-1915) Ramunė Bleizgienė

Postmodernist Representation of the Central European Multiethnic Milieu. Marek Piaček: Apolloopera - A Melodrama about Bombing for the Choir, Actor and Trombone Renata Beličová

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-45771-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004457713 DOI