The Making of Modern Romanian Culture - Literacy and the Development of National Identity

Informationen zum Autor Alex Drace-Francis is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Klappentext How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This book examines the development of both a literary tradition and institutions aimed at promoting literacy in Romania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Alex Drace-Francis combines analysis of education systems! book production! and the periodical press with case studies of key thinkers such as Mihai Eminescu! Ion Luca Caragiale and Titu Maiorescu to trace Romania's cultural and literary development. Zusammenfassung How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This book challenges the notion that Western ideas were essential to Romanian development. It is a fascinating story of how a national culture is born. It provides a history of the development of literary culture and the printed word in Romania.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alex Drace-Francis
• Edition: Tauris, I.B.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 23.11.2005
• EAN: 9781845110666
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-066-6
• Pages: 256
• Thèmes: International Library of Historical Studies; International Library of Histo; International Library of Histo; International Library of Historical Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires