Great Immortality

Studies on European Cultural Sainthood
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36429-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: National Cultivation of Culture

Winner of the Excellence Award for Collaborative Research granted by the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL)

In Great Immortality, twenty scholars from considerably different cultural backgrounds explore the ways in which certain poets, writers, and artists in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory. Through individual case studies, many of the contributors expand and challenge the concepts of cultural sainthood and canonization as developed by Marijan Dovic and Jón Karl Helgason in National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (Brill, 2017). Even though the major focus of the book is the nineteenth-century cults of national poets, the volume examines a wide variety of cases in a very broad temporal and geographical framework – from Dante and Petrarch to the most recent attempts to sanctify artists by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and from the rise of a medieval Icelandic author of sagas to the veneration of a poet and national leader in Georgia.

Contributors are: Bojan Baskar, Marijan Dovic, Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, David Fishelov, Jernej Habjan, Simon Halink, Jón Karl Helgason, Harald Hendrix, Andraž Jež, Marko Juvan, Alenka Koron, Roman Koropeckyj, Joep Leerssen, Christian Noack, Jaume Subirana, Magí Sunyer, Andreas Stynen, Andrei Terian, Bela Tsipuria, and Luka Vidmar.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Helgason, Jón Karl

Dovic, Marijan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Marko Juvan and Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Marijan Dovic and Jón Karl Helgason

Part 1:

1 Sacral States: The Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular

Joep Leerssen

2 Framing the Bones of Dante and Petrarch: Literary Cults and Scientific Discourses

Harald Hendrix

Part 2:

3 Taming a Romantic: The Canonization of Adam Mickiewicz

Roman Koropeckyj

4 The Riddles of the Shevchenko Cult

Christian Noack

5 Hagiographic Discourse in the Early Biographies of France Prešeren

Alenka Koron

6 Stanko Vraz and the Missing Saints of the Illyrian Movement

Andraž Jež

Part 3:

7 Bialik the Prophet and the Modern Hebrew Canon

David Fishelov

8 Jacint Verdaguer, a Catalan Cultural Saint

Magí Sunyer and Jaume Subirana

9 “Altars of the Flemish Movement”: Tombstones and Rituals of Nation-Building

Andreas Stynen

Part 4:

10 Hero or Traitor? The Cultural Canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Beyond

Simon Halink

11 Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia’s Cultural Saint and a Saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church

Bela Tsipuria

12 The Third Canonization of Njegoš, the National Poet of Montenegro

Bojan Baskar

Part 5:

13 Prophet, Martyr, Saint: Mihai Eminescu’s Lateral Canonization

Andrei Terian

14 Antoni Gaudí and Jože Plecnik: Two Architects on the Path from Cultural Canonization to Catholic Beatification

Luka Vidmar

15 From the Culture of Saints to the Saints of Culture: The Saint and the Writer between Life and Work

Jernej Habjan

Copyright of Figures

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Marijan Dovic is an associate professor at the ZRC SAZU Institute of the Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies in Ljubljana. He has published extensively in Slovenian and English on cultural nationalism, national poets, the literary canon, systems theory, the avant-garde, and authorship.

Jón Karl Helgason is a professor in the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. He has published monographs and articles on cultural history, cultural saints, metafiction and the afterlife of Iceland’s medieval literature.