| A Slavic Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Baron Ziga Zois Contributor(s): Zrc Sazu (Other), Vidmar, Luka (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631668872 ISBN-13: 9783631668870 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $77.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Slavic Languages (other) - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015046079 |
| Series: Thought, Society, Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.06 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book discusses the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar, a co-founder of Slavic studies and proponent of Austro-Slavism, and Baron Ziga Zois, an Austrian nobleman and patron of the Slovene national revival. The author treats their letters (composed between 1808-19), which are for the most part unpublished, both as historical sources and as texts. In the first part of the book, he situates them in history and within the genre of the letter, especially in the context of Classical and Enlightenment epistolography; in the second, he deals with their importance for the development of Slavic cultural nationalisms; in particular, he argues that this correspondence successfully bound Slovene, Czech, Polish, Dalmatian, Croatian, and Serbian literati into a Slavic republic of letters . |