Modernism

Representations of National Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-963-7326-64-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ersoy, Ahmet

Górny, Maciej

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Trencsényi, Balázs

Kopecek, Michal

Kechriotis, Vangelis

Turda, Marius

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kechriotis, Vangelis
Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.

Ersoy, Ahmet
Ahmet Ersoy is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.

Górny, Maciej
Maciej Górny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.

Kopecek, Michal
Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.

Turda, Marius
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.

Trencsényi, Balázs
Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.