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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.
Contents
Preface
Marko Juvan and Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Marijan Dović 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 Plečnik: 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