Държавата - слаб антологист: институционализиране на канонизаторски и антологийни практики през 20-те години на XX век
The state - The mediocre anthologist: Institutionalisation of the practices of the canon formation and literary anthologies in the 1920-ies

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the processes of intensive canon formation in the Bulgarian literature after World War I through the perspective of the literary anthologies. Being an individual artistic gesture in the prewar period, later, in the postwar situation, anthology becomes an instrument of state cultural politics and institutional power. In 1922, the Ministry of Education commissions and sponsors a national poetry anthology which is examined in detail in the text. On the background of the various literary fractions competing for the symbolic capital of the youth in the literary fi eld of the early 1920s, the State turns out to be a mediocre anthologist undermining its own strategies for canon formation.

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