Modernism: Representations of National Culture

Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945: Texts and Commentaries, volume III/2

Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny et Vangelis Kechriotis

Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945

Éditeur : Central European University Press

Lieu d’édition : Budapest

Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 20 décembre 2012

Collection : Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945

Année d’édition : 2010

Nombre de pages : 398


Présentation

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. 

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Chapter I. Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of “national sciences”

Nikolaos Politis

Mary Kitroeff (trad.)

Nikolaos Politis: Study on the life of modern Greeks

Ilarion Ruvarac

Linda Krstajić (trad.)

On prince Lazar

Dimitar Marinov

Alena Alexandrova (trad.)

Living antiquity

Zsolt Beöthy

Dávid Oláh (trad.)

The small mirror of Hungarian literature

Şemseddin Sami

Ahmet Ersoy (trad.)

Turkish lexicon

Eugen Lovinescu

Mária Kovács (trad.)

The history of modern Romanian civilization

Boyan Penev

Zornitsa Dimova-Hristova (trad.)

History of new Bulgarian literature

Afet İnan

Ahmet Ersoy (trad.)

Prolegomena to an outline of Turkish history

Vladimir Levstik

Olga Vukovič (trad.)

The mission of language

Dimitrie Gusti

Mária Kovács (trad.)

The science of nation

Chapter II. The “Critical turns”: Subverting the Romantic narratives

Józef Szujski

Zuzanna Ładyga (trad.)

Some truths from our history

Titu Maiorescu

Mária Kovács (trad.)

Against the contemporary direction in Romanian culture

Michał Bobrzyński

Zuzanna Ładyga (trad.)

History of Poland in outline

Garabet Ibrăileanu

Mária Kovács (trad.)

The critical sprit in Romanian culture

Giorgos Skliros

Mary Kitroeff (trad.)

Our social question

Bohdan Pavlů

Pavol Lukáč (trad.)

Progressivism and conservatism in Slovakia

Josef Pekař

Derek Paton (trad.)

The meaning of Czech history

Jovan Skerlić

Linda Krstajić, Krištof Bodrič et Vedran Dronjić (trad.)

The new youth magazines and our new generation

Giorgos Theotokas

Mary Kitroeff (trad.)

Free spirit

Emanuel Rádl

Anna Bryson (trad.)

The war between Czechs and Germans

Branko Merxhani

Rigels Halili (trad.)

The organization of the chaos

Chapter III. Literary representations of the “national character”

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Jeremiah Curtin et Alicia Tyszkiewicz (trad.)

With fire and sword; Teutonic knights

Aleko Konstantinov

Alena Alexandrova (trad.)

Bay Ganyo

Ion Luca Caragiale

Mária Kovács (trad.)

Rromanian man and Rromanian woman

Alexandros Papadiamantis

Mary Kitroeff (trad.)

Alexandros Papadiamantis: Easter chanter

Ömer Seyfeddin

Şirin Güneşer et Ahmet Ersoy (trad.)

Primo, the Turkish child

Ştefan Zeletin

Mária Kovács (trad.)

The national character of donkeys

Jaroslav Hašek

Cecil Parrott (trad.)

The good soldier Švejk

Robert Musil

Sophie Wilkins et Burton Pike (trad.)

The man without qualities

Gjergj Fishta

Robert Elsie et Janice Mathie-Heck (trad.)

The highland lute

Miroslav Krleža

Edward Dennis Goy et Jasna Levinger-Goy (trad.)

The Banquet in Blitva

Aleksander Kamiński

Stones for the rampart

Chapter IV. Aesthetic modernism and collective identities

Ioannis Psicharis

Mary Kitroeff (trad.)

My journey

Kathleen Hayes (trad.)

The Czech modern

Artur Górski

Zuzanna Ładyga (trad.)

Young Poland

Endre Ady

Adam Makkai et Sir Maurice Bowra (trad.)

I am the son of king Gog of Magog; Song of the Hungarian Jacobin

Dimo Kyorchev

Zornitsa Dimova-Hristova (trad.)

Our sorrows

Antun Gustav Matoš

Iva Polak (trad.)

Art and nationalism

Ladislav Novomeský

Pavol Lukáč (trad.)

The current state and development of Slovak culture

Millosh Gjergj Nikolla

Robert Elsie (trad.)

We, the sons of the new age; the highlander recital

Tevfik Fikret

Walter G. Andrews (trad.)

Haluk’s credo

Witold Gombrowicz

Eric Mosbacher (trad.)

Ferdydurke

George Seferis

Mary Kitroeff (trad.)

A Greek – Makriyannis

Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives

Hovsep Vartanian

Ohannes Kiliçdaği (trad.)

The constitutional truths

Celadet Alî Bedirxan

Ahmet Ersoy (trad.)

The Kurdish question, its origins and causes

Krste Petkov Misirkov

Nikola Iordanovski (trad.)

On Macedonian matters

Andrzej Szeptycki

Robert Russell (trad.)

Address delivered at the House of Lords in Vienna

Károly Kós

Dávid Oláh (trad.)

Transylvania

Josef Pfitzner

Derek Paton (trad.)

Sudeten German history

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