Bones of contention [[electronic resource] ] : the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / / Maria Todorova

• Autore: Todorova Marii͡a Nikolaeva
• Pubblicazione: Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates : ill
• Disciplina: 949.9/015092; B
• Soggetto topico: Revolutionaries - Bulgaria
• Soggetto geografico: Bulgaria Historiography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bones of contention
• ISBN: 9786155211638; 978-6-15521-163-8; 978-615-5211-63-8; 615-5211-63-9; 1-283-24813-1; 9786613248138; 1-4416-0398-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453903203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II