Modernism Representations of National Culture

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 in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kechriotis, Vangelis
Other Authors: Górny, Maciej, Ersoy, Ahmet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, Baltimore, Md. Central European University Press 2010
Series:Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) : texts and commentaries
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Collection: Central European UP History & Political Science Backlist - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:402 pages
ISBN:9786155211942