The History of National Literatures. Origins. Stages. Poetics

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
National Literatures

Mickiewicz. Poeta alternatyw

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogusław Dopart
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Open Universe ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
National Literatures ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

The title of the present monograph refers to one of the most fundamental traits of the oeuvre and literary life of Adam Mickiewicz. While constantly occupied with invigorating and broadening the subject- -matter of his works, Mickiewicz is careful to follow a steady track of ideas, concepts, and truths. In constructing successive models of poetic worlds and varying them even within single works, he incessantly integrates them into a dynamic, open universe of the ‘man of transformations’ (in Wacław Borowy’s phrasing) in accordance with the ontic position and experience of a Romantic writer. Diversity and variance of poetic forms in Mickiewicz is counterbalanced by his leaning towards regularity and structural connectedness: cycles. As early as his first critical manifesto, he opposes a schematic labeling of his creative output; he presents the history of European poetry in terms of overlapping traditions and gradual differentiation of national literatures.

The Global Presentation of Small National Literatures: South Slavs in Literary History and Theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
David Norris
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
South Slavs ◽  
History Of ◽  
David Damrosch ◽  
National Literatures

This chapter uses the particularly prominent and sensitive South Slav context to compare how representatives of dominant and subordinate literary cultures attempt to characterize and narrate the history of smaller national literatures. It begins from a notion of exchange whereby dominant literary nations are traditionally perceived to export stylistic features for emulation by writers in subordinate literatures and systems of periodization and classification for adoption by those literatures’ historians. In return, these subordinate literatures gain a channel of communication through which some degree of recognition or cultural legitimacy may be bestowed. The chapter addresses recent efforts by the academic community of dominant cultural systems to move beyond national models of literary history, focusing on accounts by pre-eminent scholars Linda Hutcheon, Stephen Greenblatt, Pascale Casanova and David Damrosch that use South Slav examples to make their case. These accounts are set against the earlier endeavours of Serbian literary historians – Jovan Skerlić, Pavle Popović and Svetozar Petrović – who engage with similar questions in their complex local context. The chapter argues that this attempt to eradicate a political agenda identified in the national approach to literary history in fact reinforces the hegemony of the dominant over the subordinate.

Competing Languages of Czech Nation-Building: Jan Kollár and the Melodiousness of Czech

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
National Program ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Literary Revival ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
National Literatures

In the modern era, the institution of literature is being reconceived across Europe as a national institution. But the new paradigm of national literatures requires a remaking of literary discourse, including the transformation of critical terminology, and this results in literary discourse becoming politicized. By analyzing the history of the term libozvučnost (melodiousness) in the Czech national literary revival, David L. Cooper demonstrates how this seemingly innocent literary term became a political lightening rod for friends pursuing the same national program. This strongly suggests that, in the formative era of national literatures, using literary issues to discuss politics is not simply a matter of instrumentalizing literary criticism for covert political activity but that discussing literary values is directly political. The example of libozvučnost also reveals how the “borrowed“ discourses of Romanticism and nationalism were fundamentally remade to respond to the modern Czech situation.

scholarly journals Mono-kronološki ‘post’: sinkronizacija međuvremena nacija u povijestima jugoslavenske književnosti Antuna Barca i Pavla Popovića i (post)-jugoslavenska književnost

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Mijatović
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Temporal Flow ◽  
National Literatures

In this paper, I approach to the relationship between the art and the democracy via discussion of two histories of Yugoslav literatures. I propose and try to defend a thesis that both accounts of the history of Yugoslav literatures synchronize temporalities of the different national literatures, reducing thereby differences between them. Both histories substantialize Yugoslav literature as a remnant of the lost community. They argue that immediacy of that community had dissolved into the variety of nations, which led separate lives under the rule of empires. In the name of that mythical past, heterogeneous temporalities are synchronized to the single temporal flow. However, the similar substantializing operation and synchronization is present in the more recent concept of (post)-Yugoslav literature.

scholarly journals Reconstructing Literature. Reflections on Cosmopolitan Literatures

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Wim Verbaal
Keyword(s):  
General Introduction ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Literatures

This is a general introduction to and reflection on some of the concepts and questions that will be central to JOLCEL, highlighting the fundamental role of schooling in the formation and continuation of literary universes. It is argued, amongst others, that one cannot construe a thorough history of Europe’s national literatures without taking into account their roots in Latin schooling and texts – roots that run far deeper than the (already widely studied) ‘reception of the classical’. Vice versa, we cannot fully understand the internal workings and development of the Latin tradition without taking into account neighbouring, overlapping and competing literatures.

Armenian, Georgian, and Church Slavonic Versions

2021 ◽  
pp. 638-654
Author(s):  
Pablo A. Torijano
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
More Care ◽  
Greek Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Sheer Number ◽  
National Literatures

The Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonic versions constitute a useful secondary witness to the text of the LXX and its history. These versions follow quite closely the recensional history of their Greek Vorlage. Their study and use in LXX textual criticism present problems due to the sheer number of manuscript witnesses and the lack of editions that follow modern editorial standards. The three versions were the first works of their national literatures and caused the invention of their respective scripts. Both the Armenian and the Georgian attest OG readings partially preserved in the Greek tradition. The Church Slavonic version should be used with more care; it kept being edited to adapt the original translation to linguistic changes, producing a very mixed text whose variants do not reflect necessarily a Greek Vorlage but different linguistic and geographical stages of the translation.

Literature? History of literature?

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Andrzej Zgorzelski
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Literary History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literature History ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
National Literatures

The author of the article postulates the situation in which at least every second or third dissertation would try to synthesize a particular stage in the evolution of a selected genre, in which teams of interpreters working on the synchronous cross-sections of poetry, prose, and drama, at the borderlines of various epochs of national literatures. In his opinion in this imaginary situation the issues and problems of literary history would not appear alien even to the youngest scholars in our fi eld of studies.

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