Author: Emily Wang
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299345807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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In December 1825, a group of liberal aristocrats, officers, and intelligentsia mounted a coup against the tsarist government of Russia. Inspired partially by the democratic revolutions in the United States and France, the Decembrist movement was unsuccessful; however, it led Russia's civil society to new avenues of aspiration and had a lasting impact on Russian culture and politics. Many writers and thinkers belonged to the conspiracy while others, including the poet Alexander Pushkin, were loosely or ambiguously affiliated. While the Decembrist movement and Pushkin's involvement has been well covered by historians, Emily Wang takes a novel approach, examining the emotional and literary motivations behind the movement and the dramatic, failed coup. Through careful readings of the literature of Pushkin and others active in the northern branch of the Decembrist movement, such as Kondraty Ryleev, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, and Fyodor Glinka, Wang traces the development of "emotional communities" among the members and adjacent writers. This book illuminates what Wang terms "civic sentimentalism": the belief that cultivating noble sentiments on an individual level was the key to liberal progress for Russian society, a core part of Decembrist ideology that constituted a key difference from their thought and Pushkin's. The emotional program for Decembrist community members was, in other ways, a civic program for Russia as a whole, one that they strove to enact by any means necessary.
Author: Andrew M. Drozd
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666944793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Revisiting Russian Radicals is a collection of ten articles that seeks to promote a revisitation of the Russian Radicals who have been somewhat unjustly forgotten in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. Rather than viewing the radicals through the lens of the 1917 October Revolution, the authors seek to analyze them on their own terms and explore new aspects of their legacy. The chapters provide a fresh look at some well-known radicals like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, and Pisarev as well as examinations of lesser-known figures, and offer an interdisciplinary approach to their investigations, combining historical and literary analysis. A lengthy introduction is included for those who are non-Slavists, and for the newer generation of Slavists who may not be as familiar with these figures.
Author: Victor Terras
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300048681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Author: Denise Merkle
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643501765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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This interdisciplinary collection investigates the relations between translation and different forms and systems of censorship that were operating in nineteenth-century Europe. The volume presents and discusses broadly the research findings of translation studies scholars from a total of nine countries. Contributors have studied not only the apparati of power that enforce censorship but also the symbolic dimension that as well as being inherent to systems is also an explicit activity on the part of decision makers. The nineteenth century has been very neglected in studies of translation censorship to date. This volume addresses this gap in research, showing how discourse was filtered by official and unofficial censorship mechanisms against a background of massive political and technological change. The volume brings together eleven essays on censorship of literature, philosophy and the press in Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, Russia and Spain. Publisher's note.
Author: Paul Miliukov
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804533
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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This first English translation of the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language is a publication of unique importance. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times. Originally published in 1941 in three sections, Religion and the Church, Literature, and Architecture, Painting and Music, it is here presented in one volume.
Author: Paul Miliukov
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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This translation makes available to English readers the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times. For the convenience of those only interested in separate sections, the book is issued in three parts as standalone volumes: Part I: Religion and the Church Part II: Literature Part III: Architecture, Painting and Music
Author: Christine Rydel
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Essays on Russian prose writers from the Napoleonic to the Crimean Wars. During this period Russian culture and prose literature emerged as an autonomous phenomenon, no longer dependent on the patronage of the state. Includes discussion of the impact writing during this period had on the ever-widening abyss between the government and the literate public, the search for a national identify, the Decembrist Revolt and the resurgence of freemasonry.
Author: Lauren G. Leighton
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271041537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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It deals extensively with Decembrism, the political conspiracy so known after its culmination in a failed attempt to overthrow the tsarist autocracy in December 1825. The Decembrist writers and other romantics influenced by Freemasonry, including Kondraty Ryleyev, Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, and Alexander Pushkin, were adept in the application of thaumaturgical skills to literature.
Author: Brian James Baer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628927992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Explores the complex role played by translation in the development of modern Russian literature and Russian national identity.
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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