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Author:   Liisa Steinby ,  Benedikts Kalnačs ,  Mikhail Oshukov ,  Viola Parente-Čapková
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
Weight:   0.673kg
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9783031187230

ISBN 10:   3031187237
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I Literary Historiography in Russia After 1990:From a Liberal Search for New Openings Back to the Idea of Russia.- Chapter 2. Historical Introduction.- Chapter 3. Academy of Sciences: Definitive Literary History.- Chapter 4. Post-Soviet University Literary Histories: Defining Russianness.- Chapter 5. Literary History and the Literary Canon in School Education: An Orthodox Upbringing.- Part II Latvian Literature as an Ideologically and Politically Contested Terrain: Literary Historiography Between Foreign Rule, Nationalism, and Comparative Perspectives.- Chapter 6. Introduction: An Outline of the Political and Cultural Development of Latvia.- Chapter 7. Latvian Literary Histories from 1812 to 1940: Popular Enlightenment, Romantic Nationalism, and Political Independence.- Chapter 8. Soviet Latvia and Exile: Political Changes in the Aftermath of WWII and Their Impact on Latvian Literary Histories.- Chapter 9. Literary Historiesin the Period of Independence: The 1990s and Early Twenty-First Century.- Part III Politics of Literary History in the Czech Lands.- Chapter 10. 10 Introduction: History, Politics, Culture and the Origins of Literary Historiography in the Czech Lands till 1918.- Chapter 11. The First Czechoslovak Republic: Literary Historiography 1918–1939.- Chapter 12. Literary Historiography in the 1950s and Early 1960s.- Chapter 13. Politics and Policies in Literary Historiography During the Periods of “Disobedience” (1963–1969) and “Normalization” (1969–1989).- Chapter 14. Literary History Since 1989: Directions, Attempts at Synthesis, Challenges.- Chapter 15. Textbooks in Literary History.- Part IV Finland: From Nation-building in Two Languages Towards a European Identity.- Chapter 16. Literary Histories from Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century: The Viewpoint of Nationalism.- Chapter 17. The Literary History of a Welfare State: Kuusi’s Literary History.- Chapter 18. Celebrating Finland: Laitinen’s Literary History.- Chapter 19. Opening Windows Toward Europe: The Varpio Literary History.- Chapter 20. In Defense of Poesy: Hallila’s Survey of Contemporary Finnish Literature.- Chapter 21. Swedish-Language Literature in Finland: From a National to a Minority Literature.- Chapter 22. Literary History in the Schools: From Nationalism to Cultural Varieties./

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Liisa Steinby is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. Her publications include Myth in the Modern Novel: Imagining the Absolute (2023), co-edited volumes Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature (2017), and Herder and the Nineteenth Century (2020). 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). 

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