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How to access, search or browse the anthology
Clicking the verse anthology tab at the top of each screen will lead you back to this welcome page.
The "navigation box" on the left will lead you to the various sections of the SPIN Interactive Resources. The "toolbox" allows you to print records in this database or to create stable URL-links to them (useful for embedding in digital documents or for source-referencing).
Clicking the logo in the left-hand top corner will take you back to the main website of SPIN, the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms.
» Browsing the index
Clicking THIS LINK will bring up a hyperlinked, alphabetical list of all titles in the anthology. Each poem is given in its original version and in an English translation; original and translated titles are all included in the index.
» Browsing or searching by country or period
- Browsing: Each poem has been categorized by [1] country and [2] date (decade) of origin. These categories are marked at the bottom of each page in clickable hyperlink format. (Other categories, reflecting salient characteristics of the texts in question, are in the process of being identified and added.)
- Searching: You can view a specific selection from the database - banknotes from an individual country, or representing a particular type of person. You can click THIS LINK for a clickable country, date and category index.
» Multi-category search
A more targeted search may require a combination of various categories. To search for specific groups (e.g. English poems pre-1820 or post-1890), involving an overlap of different categories,
- clicking THIS LINK will bring up a multi-category search screen.
» Term-specific blanket search
You can trawl the entire database for a particular term or word of your choice (e.g. author's name) by using the search box in the navigation bar.
Relevance of an anthology of nationalist verse
Romantic nationalism in Europe was often expressed in verse form. These verses often gained widespread popularity and helped disseminate the general ethos of "love of the fatherland" and the particular ideals of the freedom and greatness of one's own country. Often set to song, they became standard items on the repertoire of convivial or sociable gatherings; many European national anthems originated in this context.
SPIN will gather an on-line anthology of such verse and songs. The anthology will in each case present the text in English and in the original, with background notes. It is hoped that
- the ubiquitousness of this type of effusion can be made visible
- the resemblances and differences of different national corpuses can be shown, and that
- the conventions, clichés, tropes and rhetorical register of these texts can be opened up for comparative analysis.
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