Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 232 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004335400
Series Statement:
National cultivation of culture volume 12
Content:
In National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason explore the ways in which certain artists, writers, and poets in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory, emulating the symbolic role formerly played by state rulers and religious saints. The authors develop the concept of cultural sainthood in the context of nationalism as a form of invisible religion, identify major shifts in canonization practices from antiquity to the nationally-motivated commemoration of the nineteenth century, and explore the afterlives of two national poets, Slovenia's France Prešeren and Iceland's Jónas Hallgrímsson. The book presents a useful analytical model of canonization for further studies on cultural sainthood and opens up fruitful perspectives for the understanding of national movements.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004335394
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dović, Marijan, 1974 - National poets, cultural saints Leiden : Brill, 2017 ISBN 9789004335394
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
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Literatur
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Kanon
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Personenkult
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Patriotismus
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Nationalismus
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Schriftsteller
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Nationalliteratur
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Geschichte 1800-1900
DOI:
10.1163/9789004335400
Author information:
Dović, Marijan 1974-
