Reexamining the national-philological legacy : : quest for a new paradigm? / / edited by Vladimir Biti ; cover image, Srđan Ivanković ; Vladimir Biti [and eleven others], contributors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Biti, Vladimir, 1952-; Ivanković, Srđan.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studia imagologica ; 22; Studia Imagologica 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Notes: International conference proceedings.

Has thinking, working and teaching in terms of national literatures become obsolete in today’s globalized world of hyphenated languages, literatures and cultures? Since the rise of modern European national philologies coincided with the emergence of modern European nation-states, does the dissolution of the latter in the European supranational unity imply the suspension of the former? Or we must, on the contrary, consider the fact that today’s Europe is not only postnational but, in its re-nationalized East-Central-European part, post-multinational as well, id est, emerging out of the breakdown of the postimperial state formations such as the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia?

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Vladimir Biti -- The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation? / Vladimir Biti -- ‘Back’ to the West. Homecoming and Alterity around 1830 / Mario Grizelj -- “Humbly Report”? Svejk’s Voices from Exile / John Neubauer -- With Other Eyes or the Eyes of Others? A Scandinavian Case / Svend Erik Larsen -- The National Concept of Literature and Minority Group’s Identities in Latin America / Eduardo F. Coutinho -- National and European Identities among Political Elites and Population in European Countries / Mladen Lazić and Jelena Pešić -- Do ‘Minor Literatures’ Still Exist? The Fortunes of a Concept in the Changing Frameworks of Literary History / Galin Tihanov -- After the Bridge The Bosnian War as a European Trauma in the Work of Emir Suljagić and Aleksandar Hemon / Guido Snel -- The Literary-Political Beyond Nation, State, Nation-State. Critical Unhingings in the Thought of Jan Patočka and Hannah Arendt / Ulrike Kistner -- Heteroessences: Community, Demonstratives and Interpretation in Agamben’s Philosophy of Language / Aleksandar Mijatović -- What about the Politics of Deconstruction? / Zrinka Božić Blanuša -- Notes on Contributors.