Mõrtsukatöö Liiva järvel Kreem, Juhan
Keel ja kirjandus,
04/2024, Volume:
67, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Renowned Estonian novelist Karl Ristikivi published a gothic short story titled Luigelaul ("Swansong") in 1968, drawing inspiration from a true event from the Baltic Middle Ages. In 1428, Goswin von ...Aschenberg, a Vogt of the Teutonic Order stationed at Grobiņa Castle in the south-western corner of present-day Latvia, perpetrated the murder of Livonian bishops' envoys en route to Rome to denounce the Order's tyranny. The precise source of Ristikivi's inspiration remains obscure. This article endeavours to trace the massacre on Lake Liepāja as a motif in Baltic German and Estonian fiction, exploring its significance as a lieu de mémoire. The historical episode gained widespread recognition through the publication of the famous Wandalia by Albertus Krantz in 1519. Baltic Enlightenment authors (Arndt, Bergmann, Merkel, Küttner) utilized it in their general polemics against medieval feudal barbarism. By the nineteenth century, the event had firmly entrenched itself in the collective understanding of the Livonian Middle Ages. Baltic German writers crafted ballads (Andrejanoff, Hirschheydt) and light fiction (Schneider) around the incident. In 1866 the first literary adaptation of the massacre on Lake Liepāja emerged as a sentimental novella in Estonian, akin to the tales of Genevieve of Brabant and Robinson Crusoe popular among Estonian readers at the time. Although the event took place relatively far from Estonia, it remained embedded in the memory of Estonian readers throughout the first half of the twentieth century, primarily through sporadic newspaper articles as well as history textbooks. Thus, the massacre on Lake Liepāja provides a good example of the intertwined cultural memories of Estonians and Baltic Germans. While these cultural memories have often been perceived as conflicting or, at best, mutually unaware, there are notable instances of overlap and consensus that warrant further exploration and consideration in future research.
Embracing critical remark and laudatio, this article draws the portrait of an eminent personality of Portuguese culture in the 20th century : António José Saraiva (1917-1993). A controversial writer, ...researcher and professor, A. J. S. had a natural interest for romanticism, and a ductile understanding of historical methodology and literary theory. He was also renowned for his social awareness infused with a respect for nature, a commitment to frugality, solidarity and a true pledge for freedom. This text highlights his correspondence, especially his half of a century debate with Óscar Lopes, also a professor and literary critic, with whom A. J. S. had a fruitful collaboration. Together they produced the most well-known history of Portuguese literature.
The first History of Serbian Literature (1865) was written from the PEN of P. J. Safarik (1796-1861), a foreigner, who lived and worked in Novi Sad and did not write in Serbian. The final form was ...given by Safarik's son-in-law, who made some changes. The first edition was printed in 1826. The monograph includes a review of 289 writers. In addition to Serbian, he also deals writers who have written in foreign languages. The book contain a list of printers, patrons, scribes, a Cyrillic print of Catholic Serbs and a Cyrillic print of Protestants. He deals with works in the field of language science, rhetoric and poetry, philosophy, history and geography, pedagogy and mathematics, science of nature and technology, medicine, law and politics, including works in the field of theology. It is, therefore, a project that, through its critique of literature, actually illuminates the history of the culture of the Serbian people. Methodologically History is realized as it is done by contemporary historians of literature. Safarik's critical method, is proof that literary criticism always has a social function, if it is scientifically based and objective.
The paper presents the condition of anthology in Poland in the second half of the 19th century. The author analyses the understanding of the role of an anthologist and the dependencies between the ...shape of the 19th-century anthology and sociopolitical conditions which imposed patriotic and educational responsibilities on literature and its publishers. The consequence of this approach was, among others, the fact that an anthology fell into the category of books setting general standards with an assigned role of ‘an auxiliary collection for the history of literature’ which explains the historical and literary processes by means of literary texts complemented by appropriate remarks. The approach followed by Władysław Bełza realised a model where anthology reinforced the sense of national affiliation by indicating the works, which were crucial in the Polish culture. Moreover, it familiarised the reader with the history and promoted the program of Polish positivists, e.g. the policy of assimilation of Jewish minority in Poland. The actual practice surpassed the theoretical awareness of the genre, which at that time was rather poor. When publishing anthologies, Bełza faced dilemmas which other anthologists experienced as well − firstly, he selected the main criterion according to which he organized the whole, and then the authors and texts. Despite being an anthologist, he did not comment his choices or the role he attributed to anthology, yet his contribution to the development of anthology market in Poland as well as the studies of the phenomenon of anthologizing seems invaluable.
Se hace en este artículo un estudio comparativo de dos de los protagonistas de novelas tan míticas y relevantes —cada una en su género y en su momento histórico— como Don Quijote de La Mancha, de ...Miguel de Cervantes, y Millennium, de Stieg Larsson. Nos referimos, obviamente, a don Quijote y Lisbeth Salander. Compararemos el ideal de justicia que mueve a ambos personajes, su estado de «locura» o su relación con la realidad, aunque también veremos que existen muchas más pequeñas similitudes, no por ello menos importantes, que los caracterizan y definen como personajes únicos en la Historia de la Literatura.
This article proposes an analysis of the ideological component in the construction of Carlo Boselli and Cesco Vian's Storia della letteratura spagnola, linked to the fascist imaginary, first ...published in 1941; more specifically, of the way in which ideology becomes the guiding criterion for the selection and evaluation of the authors covered in this handbook. By linking itself so clearly to an ideology, the performative capacity of the Storia is closely tied to the fate of a political movement. As the latter loses its hegemony, the reality that Boselli and Vian's narrative constructs falls apart.
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