Modernism
Representations of National Culture
Published on 10. October 2010
Book
Hardback
402 pages
978-963-7326-64-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Discourses of Collective Identity bietet eine eindrucksvolle Lektuere und sei auch solchen Lesern empfohlen, die sich jenseits der ostmittel-, suedosteuropaeischen Area Studies fuer Nationalismusforschung interessieren. Fuer jene Regionalstudien bedeutet er einen gewichtigen Versuch, das Feld fuer eine kritische Ideengeschichte zurueckzugewinnen, nachdem besonders fuer Suedosteuropa ethnologisch-anthropologische, kultur- und sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen in letzter Zeit eine dominierende Stellung einnehmen." * H-Soz-u-Kult * "The collection does an admirable job of addressing multiple audiences. One could imagine these texts being used to great effect in an undergraduate course and, although the contexts would likely be too dense for students at this level, they would make the volume well suited to a graduate course. The series could just as easily be used by scholars well-versed in the intellectual history of one or more of the areas represented who are looking to broaden the context of their understanding." * Slavic and East European Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-7326-64-6 (9789637326646)
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Persons
Ahmet Ersoy is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogazici University, Istanbul.
Balazs Trencsenyi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.
Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogazici University, Istanbul.
Maciej Gorny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.
Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University. He is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities.
Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.
Balazs Trencsenyi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.
Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogazici University, Istanbul.
Maciej Gorny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.
Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University. He is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities.
Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.
Content
Editorial Note, Chapter I. Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of "national sciences", Chapter II. The "Critical turns": Subverting the Romantic narratives, Chapter III. Literary representations of the "national character", Chapter IV. Aesthetic modernism and collective identities, Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives