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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016.
The studies of the epistolary texts are now experiencing a growth. The fact that the letter writing can be considered as a dying art also has its influence on the increment of investigations. Researchers in literature, history, cultural history and other fields are trying to involve the letters in their inquiries and manage their transitional nature: the epistolary discourse poises between the historical and textual, public and private, documentary and literary, etc. Considering letters as extravagant narratives (a term of Elizabeth J. MacArthur), the chapters in this volume question the letter as a particular text and define different aspects of epistolarity in varying contexts.
The studies of the epistolary texts are now experiencing a growth. The fact that the letter writing can be considered as a dying art also has its influence on the increment of investigations. Researchers in literature, history, cultural history and other fields are trying to involve the letters in their inquiries and manage their transitional nature: the epistolary discourse poises between the historical and textual, public and private, documentary and literary, etc. Considering letters as extravagant narratives (a term of Elizabeth J. MacArthur), the chapters in this volume question the letter as a particular text and define different aspects of epistolarity in varying contexts.
Editor:
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016.
The studies of the epistolary texts are now experiencing a growth. The fact that the letter writing can be considered as a dying art also has its influence on the increment of investigations. Researchers in literature, history, cultural history and other fields are trying to involve the letters in their inquiries and manage their transitional nature: the epistolary discourse poises between the historical and textual, public and private, documentary and literary, etc. Considering letters as extravagant narratives (a term of Elizabeth J. MacArthur), the chapters in this volume question the letter as a particular text and define different aspects of epistolarity in varying contexts.
The studies of the epistolary texts are now experiencing a growth. The fact that the letter writing can be considered as a dying art also has its influence on the increment of investigations. Researchers in literature, history, cultural history and other fields are trying to involve the letters in their inquiries and manage their transitional nature: the epistolary discourse poises between the historical and textual, public and private, documentary and literary, etc. Considering letters as extravagant narratives (a term of Elizabeth J. MacArthur), the chapters in this volume question the letter as a particular text and define different aspects of epistolarity in varying contexts.
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In this chapter we analyse the main functions and meanings of the epistolary discourse of Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas who was the most prolific letter writer and a very influential mediator in the literary field at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in Lithuania. To investigate Vaižgantas’ epistolary discourse, we present a strategy for reading the letters as specific narratives that poise between the social and the textual, the public and the private spheres.
19th to Early 20th Century
In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics.The articles focus on the shaping of national identities through literature and analyze the establishment of literary canons by means of language, the role of national poets, and similar topics. Case studies of so-called minor literatures reveal common tendencies in the structure of many national canons, as well as specific responses and creative decisions in nation-building processes. This volume rethinks the relations between literature and nationalism (from the 19th century to present times) and contributes to the field of studies of historical development of nationalism.
Contributors are: Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev, Renata Beličová, Ramunė Bleizgienė, Paweł Bukowiec, Anna R. Burzyńska, Judit Dobry, Gergely Fórizs, Katre Kikas, Aistė Kučinskienė, Helena Markowska-Fulara, Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn, Jurga Sadauskienė, Vaidas Šeferis, Viktorija Šeina, Brigita Speičytė, Jagoda Wierzejska, and Krystyna Zabawa.
Contributors are: Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev, Renata Beličová, Ramunė Bleizgienė, Paweł Bukowiec, Anna R. Burzyńska, Judit Dobry, Gergely Fórizs, Katre Kikas, Aistė Kučinskienė, Helena Markowska-Fulara, Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn, Jurga Sadauskienė, Vaidas Šeferis, Viktorija Šeina, Brigita Speičytė, Jagoda Wierzejska, and Krystyna Zabawa.
19th to Early 20th Century
In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics.The articles focus on the shaping of national identities through literature and analyze the establishment of literary canons by means of language, the role of national poets, and similar topics. Case studies of so-called minor literatures reveal common tendencies in the structure of many national canons, as well as specific responses and creative decisions in nation-building processes. This volume rethinks the relations between literature and nationalism (from the 19th century to present times) and contributes to the field of studies of historical development of nationalism.
Contributors are: Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev, Renata Beličová, Ramunė Bleizgienė, Paweł Bukowiec, Anna R. Burzyńska, Judit Dobry, Gergely Fórizs, Katre Kikas, Aistė Kučinskienė, Helena Markowska-Fulara, Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn, Jurga Sadauskienė, Vaidas Šeferis, Viktorija Šeina, Brigita Speičytė, Jagoda Wierzejska, and Krystyna Zabawa.
Contributors are: Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev, Renata Beličová, Ramunė Bleizgienė, Paweł Bukowiec, Anna R. Burzyńska, Judit Dobry, Gergely Fórizs, Katre Kikas, Aistė Kučinskienė, Helena Markowska-Fulara, Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn, Jurga Sadauskienė, Vaidas Šeferis, Viktorija Šeina, Brigita Speičytė, Jagoda Wierzejska, and Krystyna Zabawa.