Literary Canon Formation as Nation-Building in Central Europe and the Baltics

Aistė Kučinskienė, Ph.D. (2016), is research fellow at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania) and teacher at Vilnius University. She has published the monograph Kultūrišku keliu: Juozo Tumo-Vaižganto laiškai [In a Cultural Way: Letters of Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas]. Viktorija Šeina, Ph.D. (2016), is Head of the Department of Modern Literature at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania). She has published the monograph Laikinoji sostinė lietuvių literatūroje [Temporary Capital in Lithuanian Literature] (2014).Brigita Speičytė, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor and Head of the Department of Lithuanian Literature at Vilnius University and author of two monographs: Poetinės kultūros formos: LDK palikimas XIX amžiaus Lietuvos literatūroje [The Poetics of Culture: The Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Literature of the 19th Century] (2004) and Anapus ribos: Maironis ir istorinė Lietuva [Beyond the Limit: Maironis and the Old Lithuania] (2012).

• ContentEditor’s PrefaceNotes on ContributorsNation-Building Canons: Historical and Methodological ConsiderationsViktorija ŠeinaPart 1. The Shaping of National, Cultural and Literary Identities Classicists and the Classics. The Polish Literary Canon in Academia (1800–1830)Helena Markowska-Fulara The Concept of Lithuanian Literature in the 19th CenturyBrigita Speičytė Towards an Unofficial Canon. Striving to Strengthen the Lithuanian Cultural Community under Russian Domination in the Mid-19th CenturyRadosław Okulicz-Kozaryn The Concept of Lithuanian Folk Song in Lithuanian Folklore 1800–1940Jurga Sadauskienė “Who Are You?” “A Little Pole.” The Vision of the Nation and Nationality in the Polish Literary Canon for Children on the Threshold of Independence (around 1918)Krystyna Zabawa State-Building and Nation-Building: Dimensions of the Myth of the Defense of Lviv in the Polish Literary Canon, 1918–1939Jagoda Wierzejska Counter-narratives in Greater Romania: Polemical Social, Political and Cultural Engagement in the Avant-garde Literary Magazine Contimporanul (January–July 1923)Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev “The Experience of Change”: Hungarian Literature in the First Czechoslovak RepublicJudit DobryPart 2. Literary Canonization: Case StudiesNation-Building or Nation-Bricolage? The Making of a National Poet in 19th-Century HungaryGergely Fórizs A National Epic from Below: Kalevipoeg in the Writings of Grassroots LiteratiKatre Kikas The Polish Theater Canon and Comedy – A Complicated RelationAnna R. Burzyńska Constraints of Canon Constructing. Research into the Paradoxes of Reception of Józef Baka’s Poetry in Polish Literature and Literary StudiesPaweł Bukowiec The Borderland between Conflicting Canons: Kristijonas DonelaitisVaidas Šeferis The Making of the Lithuanian National Poet: MaironisAistė Kučinskienė Cultivation of New Readers in the Early Criticism of Žemaitė’s Works (1895–1915)Ramunė Bleizgienė Postmodernist Representation of the Central European Multiethnic Milieu. Marek Piaček: Apolloopera – A Melodrama about Bombing for the Choir, Actor and TromboneRenata Beličová Index of Names