An edition of Bones of contention (2008)

Bones of contention

the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero

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An edition of Bones of contention (2008)

Bones of contention

the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero

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English
Pages
600

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Bones of contention: the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
2008, Central European University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Budapest, New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
949.9/015092, B
Library of Congress
DR83.2.L4 T63 2008, DR83.2.L4T63 2008, DR83.2.L4 T63 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
600

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17103882M
Internet Archive
bonescontentionl00todo
ISBN 13
9789639776241
LCCN
2008037561
OCLC/WorldCat
227929006
Goodreads
6251132

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