This is the second part of the third volume of the four-volume series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The aim is to confront ‘mainstream’ and seemingly successful national discourses with each other, thus creating a space for analyzing those narratives of identity which became institutionalized as “national canons.” After the volumes focousing on the late enlightenment and the emergence of national romanticism, two books elaborate on the phenomenon of modernism in eastern Europe. Modernism is conceived as a counterpart to modernity, the first belonging to the periphery, tha latter to the developed West. Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in Eastern Europe. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures. The volume focuses on the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities. Often outspokenly critical of the romantic episteme, these texts reflect a more sophisticated and critical stance than in the preceding periods. At the same time, rather than representing a complete rupture, they often continue and confirm the romantic identity narratives, albeit with “other means”. The volume also presents the ways national minorities sought to legitimize their existence with reference to their cultural and institutional peculiarity.
- Cover
- Series title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- List of contributors, consultants, translators
- Table of Contents
- Editorial note
- Chapter I. Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of “national sciences”
- Nikolaos Politis: Study on the life of modern Greeks
- The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in word and picture
- Ilarion Ruvarac: On prince Lazar
- Dimitar Marinov: Living antiquity
- Zsolt Beöthy: The small mirror of Hungarian literature
- Şemseddin Sami: Turkish lexicon
- Eugen Lovinescu: The history of modern Romanian civilization
- Boyan Penev: History of new Bulgarian literature
- Afet İnan: Prolegomena to an outline of Turkish history
- Vladimir Levstik: The mission of language
- Dimitrie Gusti: The science of nation
- Chapter II. The “Critical turns”: Subverting the Romantic narratives
- Józef Szujski: Some truths from our history
- Titu Maiorescu: Against the contemporary direction in Romanian culture
- Michał Bobrzyński: The outline of Polish history
- Garabet Ibrăileanu: The critical spirit in Romanian culture
- Giorgos Skliros: Our social question
- Bohdan Pavlů: Progressivism and conservativism in Slovakia
- Josef Pekař: The meaning of Czech history
- Jovan Skerlić: The new youth magazines and our new generations
- Giorgos Theotokas: Free spirit
- Emanuel Rádl: The war between Czechs and Germans
- Branko Merxhani: The organization of the chaos
- Chapter III. Literary representations of the “national character”
- Henryk Sienkiewicz: With fire and sword; Teutonic knights
- Aleko Konstantinov: Bay Ganyo
- Ion Luca Caragiale: Rromanian man and Rromanian woman
- Alexandros Papadiamantis: Easter chanter
- Ömer Seyfeddin: Primo, the Turkish child
- Ştefan Zeletin: The national character of donkeys
- Jaroslav Hašek: The good soldier Švejk
- Robert Musil: The man without qualities
- Gjergj Fishta: The highland lute
- Miroslav Krleža: The Banquet in Blitva
- Aleksander Kamiński: Stones for the rampart
- Chapter IV.Aesthetic modernism and collective identities
- Ioannis Psicharis: My journey
- The Czech modern
- Artur Górski: Young Poland
- Endre Ady: I am the son of king Gog of Magog; Song of the Hungarian Jacobin
- Dimo Kyorchev: Our sorrows
- Antun Gustav Matoš: Art and nationalism
- Ladislav Novomeský: The current state and the development of Slovak culture
- Millosh Gjergj Nikolla: We, the sons of the new age; The highlander recital
- Tevfik Fikret: Haluk’s credo
- Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke
- George Seferis: Α Greek–Makriyannis
- Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives
- Hovsep Vartanian: The constiutitonal truths
- Celadet Alî Bedirxan: The Kurdish question, its origins and causes
- Krste Petkov Misirkov: On Macedonian matters
- Metropolitan Andrzej Szeptycki: Address delivered at House of Lords in Vienna
- Károly Kós: Transylvania
- Romul Boilă: Study on the reorganization of the unified Romanian state
- Josef Pfitzner: Sudeten German history
- Resolution of the Muslims of Banjaluka
- back cover
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