Cultural Models and Collective Mentalities in Literature, Art, and Philosophy

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Cultural Models and Collective Mentalities in Literature, Art, and Philosophy

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This edited collection combines social science and humanities inquiries to examine the collective mentalities, identities, and national cultural models of people from different communities and nations.
Unpacking the sociocultural mechanisms of people's actions and experiences, the contributors use literary works to illustrate and further explore such mechanisms. This book explores a variety of diverse geographies from around the globe in order to compare national forms of human subjectivity and further examine collective consciousness and cultural minds.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cultural Models and Collective Mentalities in Understanding Who Humans Are (Valery Chirkov)

Part 1: Social Science and Humanities - A Fruitful Symbiosis for Understanding Collective Minds
1. Erasing Embodied Identities: Espronceda's Death-Row Inmate and the Fate of Social Deviants (Steven Mills)
2. Discursive Osmosis and the Rhetoric of Singularity: A German Case Study (Michael Eskin)

Part 2: Collective Consciousness in Literature and Art
3. The Revolt of the Irrational: The End of Albert Camus' French project? (Yelena Mazour-Matusvich)
4. Reshaping the Narrative of Soul Food: Edna Lewis's 'Taste of Country Cooking (Yumi Tanaka)

Part 3: History and Collective Memory in Forming Cultural Identities
5. The Uses and Abuses of Memory in Georgi Gospodinov's 'Time Shelter' (Margarita Marinova)
6. Navigating Basque Identities in Eva Garcia Sáenz de Urturi's Kraken Series (Melissa Carr)
7. Resurrecting Cultural Silences through Docupoetics in Muriel Rukeyser's 'The Book of the Dead.' (B. Woods)

Part 4: Collective Minds and Cultural Models of Russia and Post-Soviet Nations
8. Deconstructing the Dead Soul of Russia (Victor Fet)
9. The Concept of Russian National Character in 'Three Sisters' and 'Uncle Vanya' by Anton Chekhov (Julia Titus)
10. Searching for Cultural Models in Central Asia (Anara Tabishalieva)

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jul 10 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 234
ISBN 9781666973525
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 7 bw illus
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Slav Gratchev

Slav N. Gratchev is Professor of Spanish at Marsha…

Anthology Editor

Valery Chirkov

Valery Chirkov is Professor of Psychology in the D…

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