New Greeks Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of Altertumswissenschaft
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Scholar of literature and intellectual history. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan´. Junkiert focuses on nineteenth-century evolution of historical-literary research, literary reception of the French Revolution, and Polish literature as Weltliteratur. Author of two books, editor of nine collective volumes, and dozens of articles published in Poland, Germany, France, Greece, and the United Kingdom.
The book discusses how Polish scholars created an image of ancient Greece in the first half of the nineteenth century. In an era when Poles were deprived of their own independent state, classical philology, historiography, and literary studies became the arena of struggle to mark one’s own subjectivity on the map of Europe’s rival humanities.
Chapter 1. The Birth of Historicism and the German Griechenmythos
Chapter 2. Changes in the Classical Tradition in the Works of Groddeck and Lelewel
Chapter 3. Adam Mickiewicz’s Lausanne Lectures and Their German Sources
Chapter 4. Black Athena in the Paris Lectures
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Scholar of literature and intellectual history. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan´. Junkiert focuses on nineteenth-century evolution of historical-literary research, literary reception of the French Revolution, and Polish literature as Weltliteratur. Author of two books, editor of nine collective volumes, and dozens of articles published in Poland, Germany, France, Greece, and the United Kingdom.