Relics and Rituals: The Canonization of Cultural “Saints” from a Social Perspective
Keywords:
national literary canon, Slovene literature, Icelandic literature, Danish literature, national poets, Prešeren, France, Halgrímsson, Jónas, Andersen, Hans Christian, comparative studiesAbstract
This article discusses the social role of European cultural saints with reference to three nineteenth-century writers: Slovenia’s France Prešeren, Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen, and Iceland’s Jónas Hallgrímsson.References
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