| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Series |
National Cultivation of Culture Ser. ; v. 12 |
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National Cultivation of Culture Ser
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| Contents |
List of Figures, Charts, Tables, and Maps; Introduction; PART 1 Towards a Theory of Cultural Sainthood; CHAPTER 1 Remembering the Dead; Cultural Memory and Invisible Religion; Nationalism and Civil Religion; Relics, Rituals, and Postulators; CHAPTER 2 Commemorative Cults of Poets and Writers; From Poets' Hero Cults to the Concept of Canonicity; Medieval and Early Modern Europe: From "Poets Laureate" to the Petrarch Cult; The Cult of Centenary and Denkmalwut; Ritual and Cult as the Core of Commemorative Culture; The Rise of National Poets as Paradigmatic Cultural Saints |
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CHAPTER 3 The Canonization of Cultural SaintsCanonization, Canon, and Cultural Saints; Vita: Potentials of the Individual for Canonization; Cultus: The Production and Reproduction of Canonical Status; Effectus: Consequences for Society at Large; PART 2 National Poets from the European Periphery: Two Case Studies; CHAPTER 4 "Glory to Prešeren!"; Examining the Threads of Vita; Opera: Poetic Cult and the "European Level"; A Prelude to Canonization: The Tombstones; Vodnik, the "First Slovenian Poet"; The Prešeren Centenary and the Monument to the National Genius |
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From the Monument to the National AnthemThe "Slovenian Cultural Syndrome"; CHAPTER 5 "I Sensed Your Desire for Your Home"; Vita and Persona: Prešeren's Nordic Twin; Opera and Acta: "His Story Still Can Make the Heart Beat High"; Postulators: The Role of Friends and Relatives; The Jónas Monument and the Icelandic Flag; The Translation and Reburial of the Poet's Relics; Cultural Saints and Cultural Capital; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index of Names |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Poetry, Modern
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Helgason, Jón Karl
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| ISBN |
9789004335400 |
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9004335404 |
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