Mystifications of a Nation "the Potato Bug" and Other Essays on Czech Culture

ISBN-10: 0299248941

ISBN-13: 9780299248949

Edition: 2010

Authors: Vladimï¿½r Macura, Hana Pï¿½chovï¿½, Craig Cravens, Caryl Emerson, Petr Bugge

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A keen observer of culture, Czech writer Vladimiacute;r Macura (194599) devoted a lifetime to illuminating the myths that defined his nation.The Mystifications of a Nation, the first book-length translation of Macurars"s work in English, offers essays deftly analyzing a variety of cultural phenomena that originate, Macura argues, in the "big bang" of the nineteenth-century Czech National Revival, with its celebration of a uniquely Czech identity. In reflections on two centuries of Czech history, he ponders the symbolism in daily life. Bridges, for example-once a force of civilization connecting diverse peoples-became a sign of destruction in World War I. Turning to the Soviet and…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 11/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 150
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506



List of Illustrations


Semio-Feuilletons on the End of Empires: The Cult of the Center and the Comedy of the Bridge



Translators' Preface



Introduction: The Czech World of Vladimï¿½r Macura




The Nineteenth Century: Genesis of a Nation



Where Is My Home?



Mystification and the Nation



Dream of Europe



The Center



Prague



The Bridge



The Joyous Age: Reflections on Czechoslovak Communism



The Potato Bug



Death of the Leader



Symbol with a Human Face



The Metro



Michurin



Spartakiad



Renaming



Minus-Stalin



The Celts within Us


Notes


Further Readings


Index