Description |
xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. |
Subject |
Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 -- Tomb.
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Levski, Vasil Ivanov, 1837-1873 -- Death and burial.
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Revolutionaries -- Bulgaria -- Biography.
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Bulgaria -- Historiography.
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
Other Form: |
Original 9789639776241 (DLC) 2008037561 |
Standard No. |
2027/heb09343 hdl |
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