Inventing Luxembourg : representations of the past, space and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century /

Inventing Luxembourg : representations of the past, space and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:xii, 383 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:National cultivation of culture ; v. 1
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Subject:
Nationalism -- Luxembourg.
Luxembourgish language.
Language policy -- Luxembourg.
Sociolinguistics -- Luxembourg.
Boundaries.
Historiography.
Language and languages.
Language policy.
Luxembourgish language.
Nationalism.
Sociolinguistics.
Luxembourg -- Historiography.
Luxembourg -- Boundaries.
Luxembourg -- Languages.
Luxembourg.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9354235
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Other authors / contributors:Péporté, Pit.
ISBN:9789004181762 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004181768 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004188815 (electronic book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Narrating The Past
  • Introduction: Making Sense, Producing Meaning: Time, Memory and Historical Narratives
  • 1. The Meaning of History
  • 2. The Time of the Historian
  • 3. The Time of Memory
  • 4. The Crossing of the Times of History and Memory
  • Chapter 1. The Master Narrative of Luxembourg's History
  • 1. The Master Narrative as Presented by Arthur Herchen
  • 2. Arthur Herchen's Narrative Strategies
  • 2.1. Teleology and Continuity
  • 2.2. 'Nationalising' certain Rulers
  • 2.3. The Foreign Dominations
  • 3. Emergence of the Master-Narrative
  • 3.1. Before the Nineteenth Century
  • 3.2. The Orangist Heritage and its Catholic Future
  • 3.3. The Foreign Origins of the 'Foreign Dominations'
  • 3.4. Reacting to a 'Crisis'
  • Chapter 2. The Dissemination, Reception and Public Use of the National Master Narrative
  • 1. Continuing the Master Narrative in Historiography
  • 2. The Master Narrative and the Arts
  • 3. The Master Narrative in Popular Culture: The 1939 Pageant
  • 4. A Public Deployment of the Master Narrative: Legitimising Dynastic Rule
  • Chapter 3. Different Narratives?
  • 1. Attempts at Counter-Discourses (c. 1890 to 1970)
  • 1.1. The Last Days of the Liberal Tradition: Nicolas van Werveke
  • 1.2. The German View during the Second World War
  • 1.3. Views of the Far-Left
  • 2. New Variations on an Old Theme (c. 1963 to 1989)
  • 2.1. Continuing the Tradition
  • 2.2. A Slow Emancipation
  • 2.3. The 1989 Anniversary: A Return to a National Model
  • 3. Epilogue: New Trends since the 1980s and 1990s
  • Conclusions
  • Part 2. Drawing the Boundaries
  • Introduction: From Border Patrol to Border Petrol Stations?
  • Chapter 4. The 'Centripetal' Discursive Strategy: Nationalising the Territory
  • 1. The topos of 'Monarchical Loyalty'
  • 1.1. The 1598 Oath of Allegiance
  • 1.2. Erycius Puteanus
  • 1.3. The Brabant Revolution
  • 1.4. Past Geographies
  • 1.5. The Belgian Revolution
  • 2. Surviving the Foreign Dominations
  • 3. Reification of the Homeland
  • 3.1. Teaching about the 'Homeland' and Humankind
  • 3.2. Ethno-Culturalism
  • 3.3. The Nationalisation of the 'Homeland'
  • 4. Territorialisation of the Fatherland
  • 4.1. The Eighteenth Province
  • 4.2. The Three Dismemberments
  • 4.3. Particularism
  • 4.4. The Barrier of the Ardennes
  • Chapter 5. The 'Centrifugal' Discursive Strategy: De/Renationalising the Territory
  • 1. The Great Region: Institutionalisation of Crossborder Cooperation
  • 2. Early Modern Maps and Contemporary Readings
  • 3. In-between and Nomadic
  • 4. Providing the Great Region with a 'Common Identity'
  • 4.1. Looking for a Common Heritage
  • 4.2. Working towards a Future 'Identity'
  • Conclusions
  • Part 3. Constructing the Language
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 6. 'Our German' (1820-1918)
  • 1. Writing in a German Dialect
  • 2. Writing about a German Dialect
  • 3. First Steps in Nationalising Language
  • 3.1. The Creation of a Luxembourgish Trinity
  • 3.2. Ons Hémecht: The Society for Luxembourgian History, Literature and Art
  • 4. First Efforts at Standardisation
  • 4.1. The Wörterbuch of 1906
  • 4.2. How to Write Luxembourgish
  • 5. Luxembourgish in the Political Discussion
  • 5.1. The Constitution of 1848
  • 5.2. Luxembourgish in Parliament-Spoo's Speech (1896)
  • 5.3. The 1912 School Law
  • 6. Mischkultur
  • Chapter 7. Making Luxembourgish a Language
  • 1. Luxembourgish as an Identity Marker (1919 until the late 1940s)
  • 1.1. Associations in Favour of Luxembourgish
  • 1.2. Luxembourgish as an Object of Analysis
  • 1.3. State Interventions
  • 1.4. Luxembourgish in the Press
  • 1.5. Luxembourgish on the Eve of the Second World War
  • 1.6. World War II and its Aftermath
  • 2. A Momentary Lull (1950s to the 1960s)
  • 2.1. Studying Luxembourgish
  • 2.2. The Initial Failure of Pro-Luxembourgish Associations
  • 3. Confirming the Standing of Luxembourgish (from the 1970s to the Present Day)
  • 3.1. Actioan Lëtzebuergesch
  • 3.2. Language as a Political Tool
  • 3.3. Luxembourgish in the Media and the Arts
  • 3.4. Luxembourgish as an Object of Scholarly Analysis
  • Conclusions
  • General Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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