{"product_id":"literary-canon-formation-as-nation-building-in-central-europe-and-the-baltics-19th-to-early-20th-century-9789004398399","title":"Literary Canon Formation as Nation-Building in Central Europe and the Baltics: 19th to Early 20th Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContent  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210774110551,"sku":"9789004398399","price":112.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-canon-formation-as-nation-building-in-central-europe-and-the-baltics-19th-to-early-20th-century-9789004398399","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}