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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816109903321

Autore

Dovic Marijan

Titolo

National poets, cultural saints : canonization and commemorative cults of writers in europe / / Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2016

ISBN

90-04-33540-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations (some color), photograhs, maps

Collana

National cultivation of culture ; ; v. 12

Disciplina

809.1911

Soggetti

Nationalism and literature

Canon (Literature)

Poesia europea

Memòria col·lectiva

Nacionalisme en la literatura

Llibres electrònics

Europa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Remembering the Dead: Contexts of Cultural Sainthood -- Commemorative Cults of Poets and Writers: A Historical Perspective -- The Canonization of Cultural Saints: A Dynamic Model -- "Glory to Prešeren!": Canonizing a Paradigmatic Cultural Saint -- "I Sensed Your Desire for Your Home": Postulators of the Memory of Jónas Hallgrímsson -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

Sommario/riassunto

In National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason explore the ways in which certain artists, writers, and poets in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory, emulating the symbolic role formerly played by state rulers and religious saints. The authors develop the concept of cultural sainthood in the context of nationalism as a form of invisible religion, identify major shifts in canonization practices from antiquity to the nationally-motivated commemoration of the nineteenth century, and explore the afterlives of two national poets, Slovenia's France Prešeren and Iceland's Jónas Hallgrímsson. The book



presents a useful analytical model of canonization for further studies on cultural sainthood and opens up fruitful perspectives for the understanding of national movements.