Slavdom in Con/Texts is a collaborative volume whose central theme is ‘Slavdom’ in the broadest sense: Slavic conceptions of the nation as a spiritual and cultural community as well as their expression in literature and language. The individual chapters range widely from the relationship between humans and nature to the linguistic modelling of reality, and the psychological and social forces that shape these phenomena. Elsewhere, the contributors explore the literary and linguistic representation of the Holocaust, the verbalization of feelings and emotions in literary space, and the linguistic strategies used in political discourse.
The linguistic and literary studies in this volume are based on material from a range of Slavic languages—Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbian, Croatian and Russian—with most chapters adopting a comparative perspective. Approaching their subjects from multiple angles, the authors apply contemporary methodologies and research tools from across the humanities.