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Author_Luka Vidmar
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631668870
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book discusses the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar, a co-founder of Slavic studies and proponent of Austro-Slavism, and Baron Žiga Zois, an Austrian nobleman and patron of the Slovene national revival. The author treats their letters (composed between 1808–19), which are for the most part unpublished, both as historical sources and as texts. In the first part of the book, he situates them in history and within the genre of the letter, especially in the context of Classical and Enlightenment epistolography; in the second, he deals with their importance for the development of Slavic cultural nationalisms; in particular, he argues that this correspondence successfully bound Slovene, Czech, Polish, Dalmatian, Croatian, and Serbian literati into a Slavic «republic of letters».
Luka Vidmar is Research Fellow with the Institute of Slovene Literature and Literary Studies at the Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. He studies literature, art, and culture in Slovenia and neighboring countries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
