{"product_id":"great-immortality-studies-on-european-cultural-sainthood-9789004364295","title":"Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Excellence Award for Collaborative Research granted by the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL)   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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The culture-specific particularities and the local twists to the editors’ foundational model keep the individual case studies intriguing. [...]. Great Immortality contributes in meaningful and significant ways to the new surge of nationalism studies. [...] \"Brill’s book series National Cultivation of Culture, in which Helgason and Dović’s excellent volume appears, keeps on producing such fine scholarship to investigate these complex matters further\". Sándor Hites, in Literary Research, Fall 2020.     \"A stimulating and rich collection of essays, Great Immortality introduces and explores the metaphor of “cultural saint” in its bid to understand the complex relationship between authors’ and creative artists’ lives, their reception by their contemporaries and their posterity, and the relationship of these factors to 19th-century romantic nationalism. [...] The volume’s engagement with the nature of cultus presents not only important insights into European cultural history but also into 19th- and early 20th-century memory politics and canon formations.\" Zsuzsanna Varga, in CompLit Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, 2022.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface   Marko Juvan and Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson   Acknowledgements   List of Figures   Notes on Contributors     Introduction   Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason    Part 1:    1 Sacral States: The Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular   Joep Leerssen  2 Framing the Bones of Dante and Petrarch: Literary Cults and Scientific Discourses   Harald Hendrix    Part 2:    3 Taming a Romantic: The Canonization of Adam Mickiewicz   Roman Koropeckyj  4 The Riddles of the Shevchenko Cult   Christian Noack  5 Hagiographic Discourse in the Early Biographies of France Prešeren   Alenka Koron  6 Stanko Vraz and the Missing Saints of the Illyrian Movement   Andraž Jež    Part 3:    7 Bialik the Prophet and the Modern Hebrew Canon   David Fishelov  8 Jacint Verdaguer, a Catalan Cultural Saint   Magí Sunyer and Jaume Subirana  9 “Altars of the Flemish Movement”: Tombstones and Rituals of Nation-Building   Andreas Stynen    Part 4:    10 Hero or Traitor? The Cultural Canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Beyond   Simon Halink  11 Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia’s Cultural Saint and a Saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church   Bela Tsipuria  12 The Third Canonization of Njegoš, the National Poet of Montenegro   Bojan Baskar    Part 5:    13 Prophet, Martyr, Saint: Mihai Eminescu’s Lateral Canonization   Andrei Terian  14 Antoni Gaudí and Jože Plečnik: Two Architects on the Path from Cultural Canonization to Catholic Beatification   Luka Vidmar  15 From the Culture of Saints to the Saints of Culture: The Saint and the Writer between Life and Work   Jernej Habjan     Copyright of Figures   Index of Names","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210749141335,"sku":"9789004364295","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/great-immortality-studies-on-european-cultural-sainthood-9789004364295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}