Byron and Nationalism
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.013.31" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.013.31</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.013.31" target="_blank" >10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.013.31</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Byron and Nationalism
Original language description
Byron's poetry, drama and thought widely differ from the ideologies of ethnic or ethnocultural nationalism emerging during his lifetime and culminating before mid-nineteenth century. In spite of this, Byron's work was appropriated by a number of nationalist movements in the nineteenth-century Europe, for instance those of Greece or Poland. This contradiction is traced to the paradoxical relationship between poetry and politics in Byron's life and work. The first part of the chapter focuses on the contrasting representations of Scotland and England in Byron's early poems collected in Hours of Idleness (1807) and showing a powerful influence of Macpherson's Ossian poems. The second part analyzes the representations of Greece in Canto II of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812) and The Giaour (1813). It demonstrates how Byron's poetry subverts the nationalist imagery of the Greek struggle for liberation. The third part discusses the dilemma of Byron's 'national identity' presented in Canto X of Don Juan (1823) and incorporated to a satirical image of contemporary Britain. The Epilogue presents an example of the nationalist reception of Byron in the nineteenth-century Czech emancipation movement, showing how the image of the poet as an alien intruder in the supposedly ideal organism of Czech national community connects this local form of ethnocentric nationalism with its other far more violent and extreme manifestations, such as the German Nazism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron
ISBN
978-0-19-880880-0
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
581-595
Number of pages of the book
727
Publisher name
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
Oxford
UT code for WoS chapter
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