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Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature
Gregory Jusdanis
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Description for Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature
Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
How does literature function in the formation of a nation-state? What are its pivotal contributions to national discourse and the production of ideological collective will? And, ultimately, how is literature institutionalized and aestheticized?
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature addresses these questions and considers the role literature plays in the construction of a national cultural. Gregory Jusdanis examines the emergence of art and literature in Western Europe in the eighteenth century and traces their introduction to Greece, a stratified, noncapitalist society that was hostile to Enlightenment and secularism. This groundbreaking work explores the importation of national literatures into a ... Read moreProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Theory & History of Literature S.
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816619818
SKU
V9780816619818
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About Gregory Jusdanis
Gregory Jusdanis is assistant professor of Modern Greek at The Ohio State University and the author of The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History.
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