1st Edition
Modernism Representations of National Culture
402 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
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
Biography
Ahmet Ersoy is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.
Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
Maciej Górny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.
Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University. He is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities.
Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.
