| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 600 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history -- A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -- From breach to crisis -- No redress, or where are Levski's bones? -- A socialist public sphere? -- "Professionals" and "dilettantes" -- Recognizing the schism or what is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists? -- The apostle of freedom or what makes a hero? -- What is a hero and are heroes born? -- The "making" of Vasil Levski -- A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero -- Contesting the hero -- The literary and visual hypostases of the hero -- From hero for all to dissident and back -- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski -- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions -- The canonization and its implications -- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration -- The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus -- Commemoration, ritual and the sacred -- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 -- Death and burial.
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Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 -- Tomb.
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Revolutionaries -- Bulgaria -- Biography.
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Bulgaria -- Historiography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1441603980 (electronic bk.) |
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6155211639 (electronic bk.) |
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9639776246 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781441603982 (electronic bk.) |
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9786155211638 (electronic bk.) |
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9789639776241 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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(cloth ; alk. paper) |
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