Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Impact of Ossian: Johann Gottfried Herder's Literary Legacy
- Chapter 2 On Robert Burns: Enlightenment, Mythology and the Folkloric
- Chapter 3 The Classical Form of the Nation: The Convergence of Greek and Folk Forms in Czech and Russian Literature in the 1810s
- Chapter 4 Literary Metamorphoses and the Reframing of Enchantment: The Scottish Song and Folktale Collections of R. H. Cromek, Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers
- Chapter 5 Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the New Mythology: The Origin of the Harp
- Chapter 6 The Oral Ballad and the Printed Poem in the Portuguese Romantic Movement: The Case of J. M. da Costa e Silva's Isabel ou a Heroina de Aragom
- Chapter 7 Class, Nation and the German Folk Revival: Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner and Georg Weerth
- Chapter 8 The Estonian National Epic, Kalevipoeg: Its Sources and Inception
- Chapter 9 The Latvian Era of Folk Awakening: From Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder to the Voice of an Emergent Nation
- Chapter 10 From Folklore to Folk Law: William Morris and the Popular Sources of Legal Authority
- Chapter 11 Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904
- Chapter 12 The Bosnian Vila: Folklore and Orientalism in the Fiction of Robert Michel
- Epilogue: The Persistence of Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors
Chapter 9 - The Latvian Era of Folk Awakening: From Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder to the Voice of an Emergent Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Impact of Ossian: Johann Gottfried Herder's Literary Legacy
- Chapter 2 On Robert Burns: Enlightenment, Mythology and the Folkloric
- Chapter 3 The Classical Form of the Nation: The Convergence of Greek and Folk Forms in Czech and Russian Literature in the 1810s
- Chapter 4 Literary Metamorphoses and the Reframing of Enchantment: The Scottish Song and Folktale Collections of R. H. Cromek, Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers
- Chapter 5 Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the New Mythology: The Origin of the Harp
- Chapter 6 The Oral Ballad and the Printed Poem in the Portuguese Romantic Movement: The Case of J. M. da Costa e Silva's Isabel ou a Heroina de Aragom
- Chapter 7 Class, Nation and the German Folk Revival: Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner and Georg Weerth
- Chapter 8 The Estonian National Epic, Kalevipoeg: Its Sources and Inception
- Chapter 9 The Latvian Era of Folk Awakening: From Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder to the Voice of an Emergent Nation
- Chapter 10 From Folklore to Folk Law: William Morris and the Popular Sources of Legal Authority
- Chapter 11 Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904
- Chapter 12 The Bosnian Vila: Folklore and Orientalism in the Fiction of Robert Michel
- Epilogue: The Persistence of Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors
Summary
As a young Prussian émigré from Königsberg (now Russian Kaliningrad), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) lived and worked among the prosperous Baltic German colonists and tradesmen of Riga, then the principal city of the Russian-ruled province of Livland. The Riga period from 1764 to 1769 is synonymous with the onset of Herder's career as a civil servant, Lutheran pastor adjunctus, and schoolmaster at the Cathedral (Domkirche) School; and these professional roles as a Russian citizen would later influence his programmes in historical and political philosophy. Marking the importance of the Riga years are Herder's first published works, from which a lifelong association with the local firm of Johann Friedrich Hartknoch (1740–1789) resulted. While initially surveying German literary aesthetics and criticism, Herder developed a formative interest in the origin and nature of language, and in particular the lesser-known attributes of oral poetry. With the conceptualisation of the ‘Volkslieder’ (Herder's neologism that is usually translated as ‘folk-songs’ or ‘traditional songs’), he brought to fruition a two-volume anthology of international examples, and among these he published Latvian ritual song texts. The lengthy Volkslieder project of the 1770s advanced Herder's thinking regarding the historical individuality and cultural worth of the common people, and in this respect it was a precursor of his later monumental historical treatises. One could further argue that the song texts and polemical commentaries of the Latvian and Estonian chapters of the Volkslieder were an outpouring of dissent that signalled Herder's opposition to the institution of serfdom.
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- The Voice of the PeopleWriting the European Folk Revival, 1760–1914, pp. 141 - 156Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2012
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