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Literary History and Popular Enlightenment in Latvian Culture
The Enlightenment of peasants, an 18th-century phenomenon that originated from an interest in common people and ideas of about the emancipation of the lower classes, had a crucial impact on creating Latvian secular literary culture. When Baltic German intellectuals, inspired by the Popular Enlightenment in German-speaking countries, undertook the task to educate Latvian peasants through books, they also laid the foundation for the future emancipation of Latvian culture. By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the second part of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, this book offers insights into the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.
Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th-20th Centuries)
This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Sa...
Queer Stories of Europe
This is the first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region among other countries in Central and East Europe. It unites work by researchers of different European countries that deals with various representations of the queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years. A significant part of the book is dedicated to belletristics, with the contributors offering readings of it with knowledge about ideas circulating in public discourse that have been influential for new discoveries in history, art history, culture studies, communication studies, theology, and narratology, among other fields.
Imagology Profiles
This volume highlights the importance of imagology, one of the most popular areas of research in contemporary comparative studies. It proposes new means of academic analysis to create critical attitudes towards the development of imagological studies. The topics discussed draw a wide trajectory, from classical to marginal images, from national heroes to (un)conventional aspects of gender, from ethno-imagology to the broader dimension of intercultural references and epistemological post-poststructuralist changes. The compendium widens the field of imagology by introducing concepts such as “geo-imagology” and “imagology of gender”, and by linking the imagological strategy with the powe...
Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape
This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.
Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region
The literarisation of the early modern Baltic Sea region was a long and complex process with varying trajectories for different vernacular languages. This volume highlights the interaction of local social and cultural settings with wider political and confessional contexts. With rarely examined materials, such as prints, court protocols, letters and manuscripts in Latin and a range of vernacular languages, including Estonian, Finnish, German, Ingrian, Karelian, Latvian, Lenape, Sami languages and Swedish, the thirteen authors chart the social and literary developments of the area. Wide networks of learned men and officials but also the number of native speakers in the clergy defined the ways the poetic resources of transnational and local literary and oral cultures benefited the nascent literatures. Contributors include: Eeva-Liisa Bastman, Kati Kallio, Suvi-Päivi Koski, Ulla Koskinen, Miia Kuha, Anu Lahtinen, Tuija Laine, Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Ilkka Leskelä, Aivar Põldvee, Sanna Raninen, Kristiina Ross, Taarna Valtonen, Kristi Viiding
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Medien der Aufklärung – Aufklärung der Medien
Die Aufklärung als Epoche und Denkbewegung ist eng an einen neuen Gebrauch der Medien gebunden. Erwerb, Vermittlung und Vertrieb von Wissen mögen zunächst nur das Privileg weniger gelehrter Köpfe gewesen sein, im Kern intendierte die Aufklärung jedoch eine Öffnung der respublica litteraria für alle Menschen. Diese Ausformung der Medien fand nicht nur in den Zentren der Aufklärung statt, sondern auch in deren Peripherien, wie etwa dem Baltikum. Auch dort entstanden und etablierten sich Medien der Aufklärung. Welches waren die wirkmächtigsten Medienpraktiken? Wer waren die wichtigsten Träger und an wen richtete sich die Aufklärung in Estland, Livland und Kurland? Welche Funktionen hatten die unterschiedlichen Sprachen? Das Buch stellt das Baltikum als eine exemplarische europäische Aufklärungsregion vor und zeigt durch verschiedene disziplinäre Zugriffe (Germanistik, Geschichte, Komparatistik, Kunstgeschichte, Theologie) die Wirksamkeit aufklärerischer Medienformate in dieser Region.
Politische Dimensionen der deutschbaltischen literarischen Kultur
Die literarische Kultur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts war auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Republiken Estland und Lettland durch Auseinandersetzungen um Konfession, Stand und Nation geprägt und artikulierte sich zunächst weitgehend auf Deutsch, dann auch auf Estnisch und Lettisch. Einen Höhepunkt erlebte sie in den Epochen der Aufklärung und der nationalen Bewegungen, als die allgemeine bürgerliche Teilhabe immer dringender gefordert wurde. Nicht nur die Publizistik sowie die juristische und religiöse Gebrauchsliteratur, sondern auch die Dichtung hatten in der multikulturellen Gesellschaft des Baltikums eine politische Dimension.
Literarischer Wandel in der Geschichte der baltischen Literaturen
Literatur verändert sich - soviel ist sicher. Aber warum und wie? In neun Beiträgen von Literaturwissenschaftlern aus Estland, Lettland, Deutschland und den Niederlanden werden in diesem Band Einblicke in die komplexen Wandlungsprozesse innerhalb der eng miteinander verflochtenen deutschen, estnischen und lettischen Literaturgeschichte im Baltikum vorgestellt. Gerade in der regionalen Perspektive liefert die Analyse literarischen Wandels zentrale Bausteine zur Charakteristik und zum Verständnis der jeweiligen Literatur, indem die eindimensionale nationalsprachige Literaturgeschichtsschreibung überwunden und nicht mehr lediglich als eine Erfolgsgeschichte geschrieben wird.
