Bones of contention: the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
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Main Author: Todorova, Marii͡a Nikolaeva (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest Central European University Press 2009
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history -- A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -- From breach to crisis -- No redress, or where are Levski's bones? -- A socialist public sphere? -- "Professionals" and "dilettantes" -- Recognizing the schism or what is worse : bad professionals or good nationalists? -- The apostle of freedom or what makes a hero? -- What is a hero and are heroes born? -- The "making" of Vasil Levski -- A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero -- Contesting the hero -- The literary and visual hypostases of the hero -- From hero for all to dissident and back -- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski -- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions -- The canonization and its implications -- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration -- The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus -- Commemoration, ritual and the sacred -- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates)
ISBN:1441603980
9781441603982

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