“Canonization” of Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich: Initial Steps Cover Image

“Кананізацыя” Вінцэнта Дуніна-Марцінкевіча: пачатковыя этапы
“Canonization” of Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich: Initial Steps

Author(s): Lea Kiseleva
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Belarussian Literature, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: literary canon; classics; mechanisms of canonization;

Summary/Abstract: Analyzing the example of Dunin-Martsinkevich the article considers some general mechanisms of the writer’s canonization as well as the strategies of the construction of national literary canon. The author demonstrates how during the first decade of the 20th century the position of V. Dunin-Martsinkevich was gradually strengthened in Belarusian canon and how general estimation of his personality and his creative work changed.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 101-117
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish