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In his study, Marek Krisch deals with the life and work of the journalist, novelist, dramatist and physician Max Ring, who moved from Silesia to Berlin in 1850, where he stayed almost without interruption until his death in 1901 and where his literary career developed rapidly. He made a name for himself with his culture-historical, contemporary historical and historical novels and stories, later he also wrote non-fiction books about Berlin. In this study first his life is described, searching for Ring's habitus. This is followed by a description of Berlin in the second half of the 19th century. Of central importance is the analysis of the depiction of contemporary events, society and the most important places in selected works by Ring.
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This multi-author monograph looks at the 20th century from the perspective of its role in self-identification of individuals and/or communities as well as – in the latter case – of the place occupied by events of the 20th century in the structure of concepts that are key for the self-identification of Slavs. At the heart of each of the presented papers is the premise that the past, seen as a chain of events, is one of the factors determining identity and defining the system of national values which find their reflection in culture. Drawing on the tools of literary studies, semiotics, historiography and cultural studies, the authors undertake to put 20th century events on the map of contemporary European memory. They examine both the events that left a dreadful mark on contemporary history, causing a national (or global) trauma (like the February Revolution or outbreak of World War II) and those seen as positive (like the end of World War II, fall of the Berlin Wall or John Paul II’s pilgrimages) and evoking the feeling of pride. At the centre of attention are not only events defining the image of Europe in terms of political geography. Also clearly present is the mental perspective, which fosters recognizing the sources of national fascinations and national traumas, helps understand the mechanisms of myth-making, and points to the tools for reading myths that are constituted by, often seemingly hidden, references to the past.
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