Discourses of Collective Identity
in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 Vol.
III/2
Modernism
Representations of National Culture
The editors:
Ahmet Ersoy, Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul
Maciej Górny, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warsaw
Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi
University, Istanbul
This is the second part of the third volume of the
four-volume
series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting
the most important texts that triggered and shaped the
processes of nation-building in the many countries of
Central and Southeast Europe. The aim is to confront
‘mainstream’ and seemingly successful national
discourses with each other, thus creating a space for
analyzing those narratives of identity which became
institutionalized as “national canons.”
After the volumes focousing on the late enlightenment
and the emergence of national romanticism, two books
elaborate on the phenomenon of modernism in eastern
Europe. Modernism is conceived as a counterpart to modernity,
the first belonging to the periphery, tha latter to
the developed West.
Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism
in Eastern Europe. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts
from longer works offer new opportunities of possible
comparisons of the respective national cultures. The
volume focuses on the literary and scientific attempts
at squaring the circle of individual and collective
identities. Often outspokenly critical of the romantic
episteme, these texts reflect a more sophisticated and
critical stance than in the preceding periods. At the
same time, rather than representing a complete rupture,
they often continue and confirm the romantic identity
narratives, albeit with “other means”. The
volume also presents the ways national minorities sought
to legitimize their existence with reference to their
cultural and institutional peculiarity.
Contents
Editorial Note, Chapter I. Cultural
modernization: Institutionalization of “national
sciences”; Chapter II. The “Critical turns”:
Subverting the Romantic narratives; Chapter III. Literary
representations of the “national character”;
Chapter IV. Aesthetic modernism and collective identities;
Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority
identity-building narratives
(Texts by Nikolaos Politis, Ilarion
Ruvarac, Dimitar Marinov, Zsolt Beöthy, Şemseddin
Sami, Eugen Lovinescu, Boyan Penev, Afet İnan,
Vladimir Levstik, Dimitrie Gusti, Józef Szujski,
Titu Maiorescu, Michał Bobrzyński, Garabet
Ibrăileanu, Giorgos Skliros, Bohdan Pavlů,
Josef Pekař, Jovan Skerlić, Giorgos Theotokas,
Emanuel Rádl, Branko Merxhani, Henryk Sienkiewicz,
Aleko Konstantinov, Ion Luca Caragiale, Alexandros Papadiamantis,
Ömer Seyfeddin, Ştefan Zeletin, Jaroslav Hašek,
Robert Musil, Gjergj Fishta, Miroslav Krleža, Aleksander
Kamiński, Ioannis Psicharis, Artur Górski,
Endre Ady, Dimo Kyorchev, Antun Gustav Matoš,
Ladislav Novomeský, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Tevfik
Fikret, Witold Gombrowicz, George Seferis, Hovsep Vartanian,
Celadet Alî Bedirxan, Krste Petkov Misirkov, Andrzej
Szeptycki, Károly Kós, Romul Boilă,
Josef Pfitzner)
2010
400 pages
ISBN 978-963-7326-64-6 cloth $50.00 / €37.00 /
£33.00
Discourses
of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe
1770–1945
Vol. I. Late Enlightenment – Emergence of the
Modern 'National Idea'
Vol.II. National Romanticism – The Formation of
National Movements
Vol.
III/1 Modernism – The Creation of Nation-States
"The collection does an admirable
job of addressing multiple audiences. One could imagine
these texts being used to great effect in an undergraduate
course and, although the contexts would likely be too
dense for students at this level, they would make the
volume well suited to a graduate course. The series
could just as easily be used by scholars well-versed
in the intellectual history of one or more of the areas
represented who are looking to broaden the context of
their understanding." - Slavic and East European
Journal
"Discourses of Collective Identity bietet
eine eindrucksvolle Lektüre und sei auch solchen
Lesern empfohlen, die sich jenseits der ostmittel-,
südosteuropäischen Area Studies für
Nationalismusforschung interessieren. Für jene
Regionalstudien bedeutet er einen gewichtigen Versuch,
das Feld für eine kritische Ideengeschichte zurückzugewinnen,
nachdem besonders für Südosteuropa ethnologisch-anthropologische,
kultur- und sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen in
letzter Zeit eine dominierende Stellung einnehmen."
- H-Soz-u-Kult
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