Literary canon formation as nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics
Subtitle: 19th to early 20th century
By: edited by Aistė Kučinskienė, Viktorija Šeina, Brigita Speičytė
Series: National Cultivation of Culture -- 24; National cultivation of culture -- 24
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9789004398399; 9789004457713
Subjects: Nationalism and literature; Polish literature; History and criticism; Lithuanian literature; Literatures; National characteristics in literature; Canon (Literature); Literature
Description: "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: Aistė Kučinskienė, Anna R. Burzyńska, Brigita Speičytė, Gergely Fórizs, Helena Markowska-Fulara, Jagoda Wierzejska, Judit Dobry, Jurga Sadauskienė, Katre Kikas, Krystyna Zabawa, Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev, Paweł Bukowiec, Ramunė Bleizgienė, Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn, Renata Beličová, Vaidas Šeferis, and Viktorija Šeina"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nation-building canons : historical and methodological considerations / Viktorija Šeina; title: The shaping of national, cultural and literary identities. Classicists and the Classics : the Polish literary canon in academia (1800-1830) / Helena Markowska-Fulara; title: The concept of Lithuanian literature in the 19th century / Brigita Speičytė; title: Towards an unofficial canon : striving to strengthen the Lithuanian cultural community under Russian domination in the mid-19th century / Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn; title: The concept of Lithuanian folk song in Lithuanian folklore, 1800-1940 / Jurga Sadauskienė; title: "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; title: State-building and nation-building : dimensions of the myth of the defense of Lviv in the Polish literary canon, 1918-1939 / Jagoda Wierzejska; title: Counter-narratives in Greater Romania : polemical social, political and cultural engagement in the avant-garde literary magazine Contimporanul (January-July 1923) / Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev; title: "The experience of change" : Hungarian literature in the first Czechoslovak republic / Judit Dobry; title: Literary canonization : case studies. Nation-building or nation-Bricolage? The making of a national poet in 19th-century Hungary / Gergely Fórizs; title: A national epic from below : Kalevipoeg in the writings of grassroots literati / Katre Kikas; title: The Polish theater canon and comedy : a complicated relation / Anna R. Burzyńska; title: Constraints of canon constructing : research in to the paradoxes of reception of Józef Baka's poetry in Polish literature and literary studies / Paweł Bukowiec; title: The borderland between conflicting canons : Kristijonas Donelaitis / Vaidas Šeferis; title: The making of the Lithuanian national poet : Maironis / Aistė Kučinskienė; title: Cultivation of new readers in the early criticism of Žemaitė's works (1895-1915) / Ramunė Bleizgienė; title: Postmodernist representation of the Central European multiethnic milieu : Marek Piaček : Apolloopera; title: a melodrama about bombing for the choir, actor and trombone / Renata Beličová.