Jon helgason eds (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 260 pages : illustrations. Boards fresh, corners sharp; inconspicuous erasure from verso of title-page, else contents as new. Minor shelfwear to dust wrapper. 560 grams.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Lund, Nordic Academic Press. 2013. 260 pages. Hard-cover with dust-jacket.

Lund; Nordic Academic Press, 2012. 23x15,5 cm. 260 pp. Publisher's boards with printed dustjacket. A fine copy. "Is there a special niche reserved for womens language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Womens language, by means of an exhaustive stylistic analysis of a voluminous body of letters written in five different languages Latin, English, German, French, and Swedish from medieval times through to the long eighteenth century." (rear panel).…

260 pp. Publsiher's boards with dust jacket, spine faded.

Nordic Academic Press, Lund 2020. 264 pp. Hardcover with d/w. Fine condition. ISBN 9789188661876. (Kriterium 22).

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. xxiv, 353 pages : 24 cm. "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"-- Contents: Sacral states : the politics of worship, religious and secular / Joep Leerssen -- Framing the bones of Dante and Petrarch : literary cults and scientific discourses / Harald Hendrix -- Taming a romantic : the canonization of Adam Mickiewicz / Roman Koropeckyj -- The riddles of the Shevchenko cult / Christian Noack -- Hagiographic discourse in the early biographies of France Preseren / Alenka Koron -- Stanko Vraz and the missing saints of the Illyrian movement / Andraz Jez -- Bialik the prophet and the modern Hebrew canon / David Fishelov -- Jacint Verdaguer, a Catalan cultural saint / Magi Sunyer and Jaume Subirana -- "Altars of the Flemish movement" : tombstones and rituals of nation-building / Andreas Stynen -- Hero or traitor? the cultural canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and beyond / Simon Halink -- Ilia Chavchavadze : Georgia's cultural saint and a saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church / Bela Tsipuria -- The third canonization of Njegos, the national poet of Montenegro / Bojan Baskar -- Prophet, martyr, saint : Mihai Eminescu's lateral canonization / Andrei Terian -- Antoni Gaudi and Joze Plecnik : two architects on the path from cultural canonization to Catholic beatification / Luka Vidmar -- From the culture of saints to the saints of culture : the saint and the writer between life and work / Jernej Habjan.…