A New History of Latvian Literature: The Long Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9783631862025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 278 str.

Ryszard Nycz; Benedikts Kalnacs; Pauls Daija

Opis

In this volume, scholars from diverse research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan the nineteenth-century Latvian literature from various perspectives, taking into account links between literature, oral culture and visual art as well as the interactions between social transformations and aesthetic developments.

Spis treści

From the Established Hierarchies of the Popular Enlightenment to the Hybridity of Cultural Communication: Learned Societies, Media, and the Changing Practices of the Everyday Life - The Highly Praised Rise of Agency and its Fallacies: the Latvian National Movement and Shifting Patterns in Society and Literary Culture - On the Threshold of Modernity: Literary Culture of the Fin de siècle and Its Reception

O autorze

Pauls Daija, PhD., is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia.
His research focuses on the history of the 18th and 19th century Latvian and Baltic German literary cultures and
the history of Baltic Enlightenment.

Benedikts Kalnacs, PhD., is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, UL. His principal
research areas include 19th and 20th century Latvian literature, comparative literature, and postcolonial studies.