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National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe

National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe

Dovic, Marijan
Helgason, Jón Karl

Hardcover

Poetry CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9004335390
ISBN13: 9789004335394
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 8 2016
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dovic 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 Preseren 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.

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