Nationalism and Literature

Zunic investigated the relationship between nationalism and Serbian literature. He first analysed and evaluated the justifications for a number of critical accusations against Serbian literature. These included mythological and epic foundations (traditionalism), an obsession with national history and with the motif of the Serbian people as an eternal victim, the domination of the collective over the individual (populism), an anachronistic romantic conception of the social function of literature. In order to gain an unbiased judgement of the nationalistic role of contemporary Serbian literature, Zunic prepared a list of those books with the greatest number of copies issued in the decade 1985-1995, and constructed an appropriate hermeneutic procedure of understanding the meaning of the content and form of these works. He concluded that contemporary Serbian literature is in fact occupied with national history, and also with the unmasking of communist totalitarianism. The most influential books express and document either nationally-oriented or civil-oriented world views. The former, although mostly not militant works (with their realistic "closed" form), might have had an ideological influence on the Serbian national consciousness, while the civil-oriented works (with their "open" modern or post-modern form) could not neutralise all these extra-literary effects of the nationally-oriented works, since the predominant way of reading is a communication with the literary content (realised as a testimony of historical facts), and not with the literary form (as a carrier of the artistic value and a "moderator" of any content).

Books & characters, French & English /

Edmons A4b.

The adventures of Odysseus, literary studies.

The adventures of Odysseus.--Herodotus' portrait of Xerxes.--Euripides' tragedy of Hecuba.--The adventures of Aeneas.--Les faits de Pantagruel and La vie de Gargantua.--The giant symbolism in Rabelais's Gargantua.--Racine's Remarques sur l'Odyssée d'Homère.--Contemporary French plays from ancient sources: Anouilh's Antigone; Sartre's Les mouches.--Cocteau's Le machine infernale and Sophocles' Oedipus rex.

Books of reference for students & teachers of French; a critical survey.

Mode of access: Internet.

Classic French course in English /

Mode of access: Internet.

The spirit of French letters /

Mode of access: Internet.

Classified catalogue of the books, except fiction, French and German, in the Carnegie Free Library, of Allegheny, Pa. Class-list. Author-index. Subject-index.

Mode of access: Internet.

The modern literature of France.

Mode of access: Internet.

Recollections of Italy, England and America, with essays on various subjects, in morals and literature,

Mode of access: Internet.

Nouveaux memoires d'histoire, de critique et de litterature.

Bound in full contemporary mottled calf with triple line rule border in gilt on front and back covers. Title and ornamentation in gilt on spine.

The complete works of Edgar Allan Poe,

A reissue (with additional plates, portraits, etc.) of the "Virginia edition" published by T. Y. Crowell & company in New York, 1902.

Louisiana studies : literature, customs and dialects, history and education /

Mode of access: Internet.

Romance literature pamphlets.

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Romance literature pamphlets.

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

The symbolist movement in literature /

"Bibliography and notes": p. [331]-365.