The Politics of Literary History
Steinby, Liisa / Parente-¿apková, Viola / Oshukov, Mikhail / Kalna¿s, Benedikts This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries. While Russia saw a return to a more nationalist way of thinking about literature and a new emphasis on Orthodox religion after the fall of the Soviet Union, the opposite is true for Latvia, the Czech Republic ...