Poetry in the service of politics

Titel: Poetry in the service of politics : the case of Adam Mickiewicz in Communist Poland and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in East Germany / Anna Artwińska ; transl. by Kalina Iwanek
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Veröffentlicht: Frankfurt am Main : Lang-Ed., 2015
Umfang: 260 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 210 mm x 148 mm, 0 g
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Studien zur kulturellen und literarischen Kommunismusforschung ; 2
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ISBN: 3631629206 ; 9783631629208
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  • Introduction
  • p. 7
  • Preface to the English edition
  • p. 15
  • Part I
  • Politics
  • p. 17
  • Chapter 1
  • Party-approved Mickiewicz: speeches, monuments, rituals
  • p. 19
  • 1
  • Role models: Adam Mickiewicz in Soviet Lviv
  • p. 22
  • 2
  • Romantic tradition in the years 1945-1948
  • p. 24
  • 3
  • Communist celebrations: the 150 th anniversary of Mickiewicz's birth
  • p. 27
  • 3.1
  • The problem of Dziady
  • p. 32
  • 3.2
  • December 1948: the ritual of Thanksgiving
  • p. 34
  • 3.3
  • The monument in Warsaw
  • p. 36
  • 4
  • The national edition of Mickiewicz's Works: censorship
  • p. 41
  • 5
  • Mickiewicz in the times of thaw: the poet's 100 th death anniversary
  • p. 45
  • 5.1
  • "You budge a bit, Mr Mickiewicz and we shall budge too"
  • p. 49
  • 5.2
  • The monument in Kraków
  • p. 50
  • 6
  • From October 1956 until the millennium
  • p. 52
  • 7
  • Kazimierz Dejmek's Dziady
  • p. 57
  • Chapter 2
  • Party-approved Goethe: speeches, monuments, rituals
  • p. 63
  • 1
  • German cultural policy in the years 1945-1949
  • p. 66
  • 1.1
  • Weimar: remembrance in practice
  • p. 66
  • 1.2
  • The theory of "cultural heritage"
  • p. 71
  • 2
  • Communist celebrations: around the Goethe jubilee (1949)
  • p. 75
  • 2.1
  • Celebrations in Weimar
  • p. 79
  • 3
  • Faust as a national hero: the strategies of canonisation
  • p. 84
  • 3.1
  • The debate over Faust (1952-1953)
  • p. 86
  • 3.2
  • Schiller's Year
  • p. 90
  • 4
  • Concern for "unfalsified heritage": censorship
  • p. 92
  • 5
  • The Bitterfeld way
  • p. 95
  • 6
  • The third part of Faust
  • p. 98
  • 7
  • The year 1971
  • p. 103
  • Part II
  • Research
  • p. 105
  • Chapter 1
  • "New mickiewiczology": Marxist conceptions of Romanticism
  • p. 107
  • 1
  • Romanticism in literary criticism in 1944-1948
  • p. 110
  • 2
  • For Mickiewicz's new image
  • p. 116
  • 3
  • Waclaw Kubacki's Mickiewicz
  • p. 120
  • 4
  • The Convention of Polish Philologists (1950)
  • p. 124
  • 5
  • Stefan Zólkiewski's Mickiewicz
  • p. 127
  • 6
  • The FLR in the Jubilee Year 1955
  • p. 131
  • 7
  • The FLR criticised: the years 1957-1958
  • p. 134
  • 8
  • The Convention of Polish Philologists (1958)
  • p. 136
  • Chapter 2
  • "New Goetheology": Marxist conceptions of Classicism
  • p. 141
  • 1
  • In Gyorgy Lukács' circle of thought
  • p. 145
  • 1.1
  • Ernst Bloch and Hans Mayer
  • p. 148
  • 2
  • Gerhard Scholz's Lehrgang
  • p. 151
  • 3
  • Ingress of the new methodology
  • p. 156
  • 4
  • Settling the accounts with György Lukács
  • p. 159
  • 5
  • The classicism of Helmut Holtzhauer
  • p. 163
  • 6
  • Faust: a signature of the century
  • p. 167
  • Part III
  • Literary output
  • p. 169
  • Chapter 1
  • "Mickiewicz - a living man"
  • p. 171
  • 1
  • Poems about the Poet
  • p. 171
  • 1.1
  • Friendship with Pushkin
  • p. 185
  • 2
  • Socialist realist stylistics
  • p. 188
  • 2.1
  • Ballade
  • p. 188
  • 2.2
  • Epic poem
  • p. 191
  • 3
  • The Romantic tradition in Polish poetry after 1956
  • p. 194
  • Chapter 2
  • "We all come out of Wilhelm Meister"
  • p. 199
  • 1
  • Goethe in East German poetry
  • p. 201
  • 1.1
  • The Bitterfeld poems
  • p. 207
  • 2
  • "We all come out of Wilhelm Meister": socialist educational novels
  • p. 212
  • 2.1
  • Theoretical basis
  • p. 212
  • 2.2
  • From theory to practice: educational novel
  • p. 214
  • 3
  • Overcoming the paradigm: Goethe another way
  • p. 217
  • Summary
  • p. 219
  • Bibliography
  • p. 223
  • Index
  • p. 253