A history of Russian literature

A history of Russian literature / Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler.

Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. This volume provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments o...

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Main Authors: Kahn, Andrew (Author), Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich) (Author), Reyfman, Irina (Author), Sandler, Stephanie, 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Russian literature > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The medieval period; Institutions and contexts: writing and authorship, 1100-1400
  • Holy Russia: landmarks in medieval literature
  • Local narratives
  • Part II. The seventeenth century; Paradise lost: national narratives
  • Cultural interface: printing, humanist learning and orthodox resistance in the second half of the seventeenth century
  • Court theater
  • Poets
  • Prose
  • Part III. The eighteenth century; Defining classicism: the canons of taste
  • Institutions of writing and authorship
  • National narratives
  • Poetics and subjectivities between classicism and romanticism
  • Prose fiction
  • Part IV. The Nineteenth century; Institutions
  • The literary field: from amateur societies to professional institutions and literary alliances
  • Subjectivities
  • Forms of prose
  • Literary identity and social structure of the imperial period
  • Types: heroes and anti-heroes
  • Heroines and emancipation
  • Narratives of nation-building
  • Part V. the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; Institutions
  • The poetics of subjectivity
  • The poetics of language
  • Prose and drama: negotiations with history
  • Catastrophic narratives
  • Intelligentsia narratives.

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