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The politics of literary history : literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990
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Details
- Creator
- Liisa Steinby, Benedikts Kalnacs, Mikhail Oshukov, Viola Parente-Capková, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Cham, Switzerland : Macmillan Palgrave, 2024
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (407 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783031187247, 3031187245, 9783031187230
- OCLC
- on1420600709
- Includes index.
- Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Shifts in Literary Historiography: The Political Background -- Literary Historiography from the Eighteenth Century to the Present: Scholarly and Ideological Trends and Tensions -- Questions of Modernization and Nationalism(s) -- Literature -- Part I: Literary Historiography in Russia After 1990: From a Liberal Search for New Openings Back to the Idea of Russia -- Chapter 2: Historical Introduction -- Literature -- Chapter 3: Academy of Sciences: Definitive Literary History -- Academy of Sciences: Background -- Academy Literary Histories: From Class Struggle to Synthesis -- Academy History: Scholarly Debates -- Academy Response: Promises of a New History -- Literature -- Chapter 4: Post-Soviet University Literary Histories: Defining Russianness -- Late 1980s to 1990s: From Communist Ideology to Patriotism -- The 2010s: The Unity of Russian Literature -- 2010s: Reintegrating the Soviet Heritage -- Theoretical Frameworks: Reassuming the Quest for Russian Destiny -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Literary History and the Literary Canon in School Education: An Orthodox Upbringing -- Nineteenth-Century and Soviet School Textbooks of Literary History -- School Literary History After 1991: Updating the Canon -- Comparing Different Editions of Textbooks: Toward the Russian Idea -- Literature -- Part II: Latvian Literature as an Ideologically and Politically Contested Terrain: Literary Historiography Between Foreign Rule, Nationalism, and Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 6: Introduction: An Outline of the Political and Cultural Development of Latvia -- Twelfth to Sixteenth Century -- Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Twentieth Century -- Literature
- Chapter 7: Latvian Literary Histories from 1812 to 1940: Popular Enlightenment, Romantic Nationalism, and Political Independence -- Beginnings: Nineteenth-Century Surveys of Latvian Written Texts -- The Early Twentieth Century: The Dominant Role of Schoolteachers -- Literary Histories as a Reflection of the Ideology of the Independent State (1918-1940) -- Literature -- Chapter 8: Soviet Latvia and Exile: Political Changes in the Aftermath of WWII and Their Impact on Latvian Literary Histories -- Latvian Literary Histories in Exile -- Histories of Latvian Literature in Soviet Latvia -- Soviet School Education and Literary History -- Literature -- Chapter 9: Literary Histories in the Period of Independence: The 1990s and Early Twenty-First Century -- Retrospective Efforts -- Innovative Undertakings -- Literary History in Latvian School Textbooks -- Literature -- Part III: Politics of Literary History in the Czech Lands -- Chapter 10: Introduction: History, Politics, Culture and the Origins of Literary Historiography in the Czech Lands till 1918 -- The Historical Background of Literary Culture in the Czech Lands to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- Origins of Czech Literary Historiography -- Czech Literary Historiography from the Late Nineteenth Century to the First Czechoslovak Republic -- Literature -- Chapter 11: The First Czechoslovak Republic: Literary Historiography 1918-1939 -- Background of Development of Culture, Scholarship and Literary Historiography in Czechoslovakia After World War I -- The Legacy of Jaroslav Vlček: Positivism and Czechoslovakism -- The Issue of German Literature in the History of Czech Literature and German Studies -- Impulses from Abroad: Scholarly Exchange, Immigration and Structuralism in Interwar Czechoslovakia -- Literature -- Chapter 12: Literary Historiography in the 1950s and Early 1960s
- The Academy History of Czech Literature -- Literature -- Chapter 13: Politics and Policies in Literary Historiography During the Periods of "Disobedience" (1963-1969) and "Normalization" (1969-1989) -- Literature -- Chapter 14: Literary History Since 1989: Directions, Attempts at Synthesis, Challenges -- Volume 4 of the Academy Literary History -- Old and New Literary Histories -- Formation of New Syntheses: Literature Within Culture, Literature as Culture -- Literature -- Chapter 15: Textbooks in Literary History -- Literature -- Part IV: Finland: From Nation-building in Two Languages Towards a European Identity -- Chapter 16: Literary Histories from Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century: The Viewpoint of Nationalism -- Literature -- Chapter 17: The Literary History of a Welfare State: Kuusi's Literary History -- Literature -- Chapter 18: Celebrating Finland: Laitinen's Literary History -- Literature -- Chapter 19: Opening Windows Toward Europe: The Varpio Literary History -- Literature -- Chapter 20: In Defense of Poesy: Hallila's Survey of Contemporary Finnish Literature -- Literature -- Chapter 21: Swedish-Language Literature in Finland: From a National to a Minority Literature -- Literature -- Chapter 22: Literary History in the Schools: From Nationalism to Cultural Varieties -- Literature -- Afterword: Politics, Nations, and Literary Histories -- Literature -- List of Contributors -- Index
Subjects
- Russian literature -- History and criticism.
- Literature and history -- Russia (Federation)
- Literature and history -- Latvia.
- Literature and history -- Czech Republic.
- Literature and history -- Finland.
- Latvian literature -- History and criticism.
- Czech literature -- History and criticism.
- Finnish literature -- History and criticism.