In contemporary Central Asia, Soviet-era authors are national heroes. Writers’ natal homes have become lovingly curated home-museums; statues of poets bedeck city squares; and schoolchildren write dictations from twentieth-century novels. Less often discussed in public, such writers also once belonged to the Soviet Union, many these called themselves “proletarian,” their novels purported imagin...

This paper considers the cause for canonization of Gianna Beretta Molla, a pediatrician who died in 1962 because during her pregnancy she refused medical treatment that would have caused to abort. The acts Gianna’s contribute creation specific example mirroring and sustaining position adopted by Church 1960s 1970s matters abortion, motherhood, family, right life. These issues were particularly ...

Translating Mao Zedong’s poetry into English has been a significant cause since the founding of New China and aroused great academic attention in other countries. In 1975, Eugene Eoyang, Chinese American scholar, translated eight poems published them later remarkable anthology Sunflower Splendor, which made considerable contribution to promotion canonization Mao’s as well traditional world. Eoy...

Abstract The introduction to this special issue provides some considerations on early modern sanctity as a historical object. It firstly presents the major shifts in developing idea of between late medieval period and nineteenth century, passing through construction its cultural, social, political implications. Secondly, it an overview main sources that allow historians retrace sanctity, especi...

This article describes chronologically Edith Södergran's and partly also her Finland-Swedish poet colleagues' canonization in the form of translations territory former Czechoslovakia. The poetry has been translated there into three languages: Czech, Slovak Hungarian. Czech began 1930s reached its peak by edition collected works (1987). In Slovakia, peaks are two: 1969 (the first anthology) 2008...