Format:
1 online resource (377 pages)
ISBN:
9789004395138
Series Statement:
National Cultivation of Culture Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- From a Monument in Ljubljana to the History and Theory of Cultural Saints: a Preface -- Cultural Sainthood and Great Immortality: an Introduction -- 1 Sacral States: the Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular -- 2 Framing the Bones of Dante and Petrarch: Literary Cults and Scientific Discourses -- 3 Taming a Romantic: the Canonization of Adam Mickiewicz -- 4 The Riddles of the Shevchenko Cult -- 5 Hagiographic Discourse in the Early Biographies of France Preseren -- 6 Stanko Vraz and the Missing Saints of the Illyrian Movement -- 7 Bialik the Prophet and the Modern Hebrew Canon -- 8 Jacint Verdaguer, a Catalan Cultural Saint -- 9 "Altars of the Flemish Movement": Tombstones and Rituals of Nation-Building -- 10 Hero or Traitor? The Cultural Canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Beyond -- 11 Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia's Cultural Saint and a Saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church -- 12 The Third Canonization of Njegos, the National Poet of Montenegro -- 13 Prophet, Martyr, Saint: Mihai Eminescu's Lateral Canonization -- 14 Antoni Gaudí and Joze Plecnik: Two Architects on the Path from Cultural Canonization to Catholic Beatification -- 15 From the Culture of Saints to the Saints of Culture: the Saint and the Writer between Life and Work -- Index of Names.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004364295
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004364295
Language:
English
Author information:
Dović, Marijan 1974-
