Imagology Profiles: The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature

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This volume highlights the importance of imagology, one of the most popular areas of research in contemporary comparative studies. It proposes new means of academic analysis to create critical attitudes towards the development of imagological studies. The topics discussed draw a wide trajectory, from classical to marginal images, from national heroes to (un)conventional aspects of gender, from ethno-imagology to the broader dimension of intercultural references and epistemological post-poststructuralist changes.
The compendium widens the field of imagology by introducing concepts such as “geo-imagology” and “imagology of gender”, and by linking the imagological strategy with the power principle developed by post-colonialism and with the fictional project of an imaginary utopian society. The essays selected include case studies focusing on the works of individual authors, as well as broader insights concentrating on regional, national and transnational identities that experienced a change of imagery due to historical, political and social shifts. The book pays particular attention to the aspects of mobile imagery, the emergence of peripheral identities related to gender, class, ethnicity or race, and the detection and assessment of well-established stereotypes. The scope of the topics discussed and the variety of periods covered imply the universal nature and versatile applicability of literary imagology.
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Lietuviešu literatūrzinātnieces Laura Laurušaitės sastādītajā krājumā publicēti arī:
Zane Šiliņa. Development of the National Hero in Latvian Literature:
From Andrejs Pumpurs’s Epic Vision to Rainis’s Dramatic Image.
Pauls Daija. Enlightenment Culture and Others: The Image of Foreigners and Ethnic Minorities in Shaping Latvian Rural Identity, 40.–51. lpp.
Vigmantas Butkus. The Self-image of the Latvians and the Image of the Lithuanians
in the Book Leišmalīte by Imants and Rimants Ziedonis

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