Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) : texts and commentaries. Volume III/2, Modernism : representations of national culture

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 Table of Contents Editorial note CHAPTER I. CULTURAL MODERNIZATION: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF “NATIONAL SCIENCES” STUDY ON THE LIFE OF MODERN GREEKS THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY IN WORD AND PICTURE ON PRINCE LAZAR LIVING ANTIQUITY THE SMALL MIRROR OF HUNGARIAN LITERATURE TURKISH LEXICON THE HISTORY OF MODERN ROMANIAN CIVILIZATION HISTORY OF NEW BULGARIAN LITERATURE PROLEGOMENA TO AN OUTLINE OF TURKISH HISTORY THE MISSION OF LANGUAGE THE SCIENCE OF NATION CHAPTER II. THE “CRITICAL TURNS”: SUBVERTING THE ROMANTIC NARRATIVES SOME TRUTHS FROM OUR HISTORY AGAINST THE CONTEMPORARY DIRECTION IN ROMANIAN CULTURE HISTORY OF POLAND IN OUTLINE THE CRITICAL SPRIT IN ROMANIAN CULTURE OUR SOCIAL QUESTION PROGRESSIVISM AND CONSERVATISM IN SLOVAKIA THE MEANING OF CZECH HISTORY THE NEW YOUTH MAGAZINES AND OUR NEW GENERATION FREE SPIRIT THE WAR BETWEEN CZECHS AND GERMANS THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAOS CHAPTER III. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE “NATIONAL CHARACTER” WITH FIRE AND SWORD; TEUTONIC KNIGHTS BAY GANYO RROMANIAN MAN AND RROMANIAN WOMAN EASTER CHANTER PRIMO, THE TURKISH CHILD THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF DONKEYS THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES THE HIGHLAND LUTE THE BANQUET IN BLITVA STONES FOR THE RAMPART CHAPTER IV. AESTHETIC MODERNISM AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES MY JOURNEY THE CZECH MODERN YOUNG POLAND I AM THE SON OF KING GOG OF MAGOG; SONG OF THE HUNGARIAN JACOBIN OUR SORROWS ART AND NATIONALISM THE CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SLOVAK CULTURE WE, THE SONS OF THE NEW AGE; THE HIGHLANDER RECITAL HALUK’S CREDO FERDYDURKE A GREEK – MAKRIYANNIS CHAPTER V. REGIONALISM, AUTONOMISM AND THE MINORITY IDENTITY-BUILDING NARRATIVES THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRUTHS THE KURDISH QUESTION, ITS ORIGINS AND CAUSES ON MACEDONIAN MATTERS ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN VIENNA TRANSYLVANIA STUDY ON THE REORGANIZATION OF THE UNIFIED ROMANIAN STATE SUDETEN GERMAN HISTORY RESOLUTION OF THE MUSLIMS OF BANJALUKA