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How should we understand the national epics such as the Lay of the Nibelungs, the Tale of Igor’s Campaign, and the Kalevala, which gained renewed significance in the nineteenth century? Were they simply monuments to the national past, or did new understandings of their meanings and potential roles emerge in the nineteenth century as an interconnected European phenomenon? If so, how did these connections work, and why do they still matter today? Drawing on examples from Slavic literatures, music, and the visual arts, this volume shows how national epics helped shape modern European cultural identities – and why they remain symbols of controversies that continue to demand memory work.
Contributors are: Tamás Berkes, Jean Boutan, Anna Cavazzoni, Olga Čadajeva, Mark-Georg Dehrmann, Dalibor Dobiáš, Andraž Jež, Michał Kuziak, Pavla Machalíková, Aleksandar Pavlović, and Aleksandra Wojda.
Contributors are: Tamás Berkes, Jean Boutan, Anna Cavazzoni, Olga Čadajeva, Mark-Georg Dehrmann, Dalibor Dobiáš, Andraž Jež, Michał Kuziak, Pavla Machalíková, Aleksandar Pavlović, and Aleksandra Wojda.
Price: $170.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: National Cultivation of Culture
Publication Date:
December 17, 2026
ISBN: 9789004689039
Format: Hardcover
Dalibor Dobiáš is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on Central European literatures, with particular interests in Romantic nationalism, the history of literary criticism, and multilingual authors.
Mark-Georg Dehrmann is Professor of Modern German and Comparative Literature at Humboldt University, in Berlin. His research interests include the history of the epic in the modern age, the history and theory of philology, and theories of form and formalism.
Mark-Georg Dehrmann is Professor of Modern German and Comparative Literature at Humboldt University, in Berlin. His research interests include the history of the epic in the modern age, the history and theory of philology, and theories of form and formalism.