Emotions, Language and Identity on the Margins of Europe [electronic resource] /
Giorgi, K.author.
When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A summary of the three word-concepts; The nature of the study; 1 Emotions into History; Untranslatability; Naming emotions; Nostalgia: an early word-concept; Melancholy sadness; Peripheral identities; Progress, modernity and time; National characters, spirits and emotions; Melancholy, modernity and the intelligentsia; Part I Saudade and Portugueseness; Introduction to Part I; 2 Proudly Alone?; What is saudade ?; The polemic - a 'dialogue of noncommunicators'; Crisis; Portugal and Europe
Alienation and periphery3 Modernity and Martyrdom; Saudosismo as a fundamentalist religion; Race and essentialism; A pleasurable pain; Portugal immortal; Hope for the future; Pascoaes - prophecy and delusion; Disillusionment; Conclusion to Part I; Part II Lítost and Czechness; Introduction to Part II; 4 Evolution of a Fatalism; What is lítost ?; The 'Czech Destiny' debate; 'The Tragedy of Central Europe'; With suffering, without pity; Translation and resistance; Middle ground; 5 Culture As Identity; Czech linguistic nationalism; Little Czech man, little Czech nation; Czechness personified
HumourFaith and belonging; Conclusion to Part II; Part III Hüzün and Turkishness; Introduction to Part III; 6 Defining Memories; What is hüzün ?; The melancholy text - Istanbul: Memories and the City; Pamuk - the personal and the political; Translation and audience; Modern Istanbul, modern Turkey - the book's context; Modes of Turkishness; Nostalgia and time; 7 Occidental Tourism; Istanbul and its discontents; Looking at Istanbul; Turkish melancholy from Empire to Republic; The re-enchantment of Turkey; Turkishness and immaturity; The happy Turk; The old and the new; Conclusion to Part III
ConclusionIndex
Includes index.
When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope.
Europe-History.
Civilization-History.
Political science.
Social history.
Emotions.
Language and languages-Philosophy.
European History.
Cultural History.
Political Science.
Social History.
Emotion.
Philosophy of Language.