Overview
- Shows the dependence of literary historiography from a founding ideology
- Discusses nationalism, in various forms, and communism as background ideologies
- Reveals the different developments in literary historiography in Russia, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Finland
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Literary Historiography in Russia After 1990: From a Liberal Search for New Openings Back to the Idea of Russia
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Latvian Literature as an Ideologically and Politically Contested Terrain: Literary Historiography Between Foreign Rule, Nationalism, and Comparative Perspectives
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Politics of Literary History in the Czech Lands
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Benedikts Kalnačs is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Liepāja, Latvia. His publications include A New History of Latvian Literature: The Long Nineteenth Century (ed., with Pauls Daija, 2022).
Mikhail Oshukov is Assistant Professor at Petrozavodsk State University, Russia. His publications include the articles "Ezra Pound’s Dramatic Works: Vorticist Noh Theater" (2019), "E.E. Cummings: geometry and grammar of revolution" (2017), and "Familiar Otherness: Peculiarities of dialogue in Ezra Pound’s poetics of inclusion" (2013).
Viola Parente-Čapková is Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. Her publications include co-edited volumes Women Writing Intimate Spaces: The Long 19th Century at the Fringes of Europe (2023), and Nordic literature of Decadence (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Literary History
Book Subtitle: Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990
Editors: Liisa Steinby, Benedikts Kalnačs, Mikhail Oshukov, Viola Parente-Čapková
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18724-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18723-0Published: 08 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18726-1Due: 21 February 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18724-7Published: 07 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 408
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, European Literature, Russian, Soviet, and East European History