Publication

2019 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

88,250 words, Guess

Page Count

353 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004364295
  • ISBN-109004364293
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019001648
  • OCLC Control Number1078886118
  • Better World Books9789004364295
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPN1111.G74 2019
  • LCCPN1111 .G74 2019

Description

"In Great Immortality, twenty scholars from considerably different cultural backgrounds explore the ways in which certain poets, writers, and artists in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory. Through individual case studies, many of the contributors expand and challenge the concepts of cultural sainthood and canonization as developed by Marijan Dovic and Jón Karl Helgason in National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (Brill, 2017). Even though the major focus of the book is the nineteenth-century cults of national poets, the volume examines a wide variety of cases in a very broad temporal and geographical framework - from Dante and Petrarch to the most recent attempts to sanctify artists by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and from the rise of a medieval Icelandic author of sagas to the veneration of a poet and national leader in Georgia"--

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