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- Modernism: Representations of National Culture
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Central European University Press
- Series: Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945)
summary
Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in Eastern Europe. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures. The volume focuses on the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities. Often outspokenly critical of the romantic episteme, these texts reflect a more sophisticated and critical stance than in the preceding periods. At the same time, rather than representing a complete rupture, they often continue and confirm the romantic identity narratives, albeit with "other means". The volume also presents the ways national minorities sought to legitimize their existence with reference to their cultural and institutional peculiarity.
Table of Contents
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- Series title page
- pp. i-ii
- Title page
- p. iii
- Copyright page
- p. iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Editorial note
- pp. ix-x
- Chapter I. Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of “national sciences”
- Ilarion Ruvarac: On Prince Lazar
- pp. 15-19
- Dimitar Marinov: Living antiquity
- pp. 20-25
- Şemseddin Sami: Turkish lexicon
- pp. 33-39
- Chapter II. The “Critical turns”: Subverting the Romantic narratives
- Giorgos Skliros: Our social question
- pp. 108-114
- Josef Pekař: The meaning of Czech history
- pp. 124-131
- Giorgos Theotokas: Free spirit
- pp. 139-145
- Chapter III. Literary representations of the “national character”
- Aleko Konstantinov: Bay Ganyo
- pp. 172-177
- Alexandros Papadiamantis: Easter chanter
- pp. 184-189
- Ömer Seyfeddin: Primo, the Turkish child
- pp. 190-197
- Jaroslav Hašek: The good soldier Švejk
- pp. 206-214
- Robert Musil: The man without qualities
- pp. 215-223
- Gjergj Fishta: The highland lute
- pp. 224-229
- Miroslav Krleža: The Banquet in Blitva
- pp. 230-240
- Aleksander Kamiński: Stones for the rampart
- pp. 241-248
- Chapter IV.Aesthetic modernism and collective identities
- Ioannis Psicharis: My journey
- pp. 251-259
- The Czech modern
- pp. 260-265
- Artur Górski: Young Poland
- pp. 266-273
- Dimo Kyorchev: Our sorrows
- pp. 280-285
- Antun Gustav Matoš: Art and nationalism
- pp. 286-294
- Tevfik Fikret: Haluk’s credo
- pp. 309-312
- Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke
- pp. 313-321
- George Seferis: Α Greek–Makriyannis
- pp. 322-330
- Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives
- Hovsep Vartanian: The constiutitonal truths
- pp. 333-342
- Krste Petkov Misirkov: On Macedonian matters
- pp. 351-356
- Károly Kós: Transylvania
- pp. 365-371
- Josef Pfitzner: Sudeten German history
- pp. 379-386
- Resolution of the Muslims of Banjaluka
- pp. 387-392
- Back Cover
- p. bc
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155211942
Related ISBN(s)
9789637326646
MARC Record
OCLC
743171336
Pages
402
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No