Author: Irina Paperno
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Individual in Culture, N.G. Chernyshevsky
Author: Irina Paperno
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Saints and Revolutionaries
Author: Marcia A. Morris
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791412992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An examination of literary works spanning more than seven centuries, this volume studies the ascetic hero and asceticism, exploring the elusive interplay between religion, politics, and belles lettres in Russia. The first part places works including the thirteenth-century Kievan Crypt Patericon and Life of Avraamii Smolenskii, Epifanii's Life of Sergii Radonezhskii, and other lives written in the north of Russia, in the context of crucial religious doctrines such as apocalypticism and deification. The author shows how Old Russian literature plays a major cultural role in the continuing development of these doctrines on Russian soil. The second part traces a revival of the Russian fascination with themes of apocalypse and perfectibility to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morris also documents the development of a divergence in ideological approach between Russian writers who continued to view apocalypticism and deification as religious phenomena and those who used them as tools of social and political struggle. Works by Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Gorky, as well as classic novels of the socialist realist tradition are analyzed as evidence of the underlying unity of the literary manifestations of this ostensibly bifurcated intellectual tradition.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791412992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An examination of literary works spanning more than seven centuries, this volume studies the ascetic hero and asceticism, exploring the elusive interplay between religion, politics, and belles lettres in Russia. The first part places works including the thirteenth-century Kievan Crypt Patericon and Life of Avraamii Smolenskii, Epifanii's Life of Sergii Radonezhskii, and other lives written in the north of Russia, in the context of crucial religious doctrines such as apocalypticism and deification. The author shows how Old Russian literature plays a major cultural role in the continuing development of these doctrines on Russian soil. The second part traces a revival of the Russian fascination with themes of apocalypse and perfectibility to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morris also documents the development of a divergence in ideological approach between Russian writers who continued to view apocalypticism and deification as religious phenomena and those who used them as tools of social and political struggle. Works by Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Gorky, as well as classic novels of the socialist realist tradition are analyzed as evidence of the underlying unity of the literary manifestations of this ostensibly bifurcated intellectual tradition.
The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, 1862-1919
Author: Gary Thurston
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, Gary Thurston illuminates the "popular theater" of pre-revolutionary Russia, which existed alongside the performing arts for the nation's economic elite. He shows how from Peter the Great's creation of Europe's first theater for popular enlightenment to Lenin's decree nationalizing all Soviet theaters, Russian rulers aggressively exploited this enduring art form for ideological ends rather than for its commercial potential. After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, educated Russians began to present plays as part of a crusade to "civilize" the peasants. Relying on archival and published material virtually unknown outside Russia, this study looks at how playwrights criticized Russian social and political realities, how various groups perceived their plays, and how the plays motivated viewers to change themselves or change their circumstances. The picture that emerges is of a potent civic art influential in a way that eluded and challenged authoritarian control.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, Gary Thurston illuminates the "popular theater" of pre-revolutionary Russia, which existed alongside the performing arts for the nation's economic elite. He shows how from Peter the Great's creation of Europe's first theater for popular enlightenment to Lenin's decree nationalizing all Soviet theaters, Russian rulers aggressively exploited this enduring art form for ideological ends rather than for its commercial potential. After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, educated Russians began to present plays as part of a crusade to "civilize" the peasants. Relying on archival and published material virtually unknown outside Russia, this study looks at how playwrights criticized Russian social and political realities, how various groups perceived their plays, and how the plays motivated viewers to change themselves or change their circumstances. The picture that emerges is of a potent civic art influential in a way that eluded and challenged authoritarian control.
"The Double-edged Sword of Word and Deed" Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture
Author: Lynn Ellen Patyk
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History
Author: Юрий Михайлович Лотман
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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N.G. Chernyshevsky on Aesthetics and Art
Author: Dennis Reinhartz
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Author:
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Slavic Review
Author:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Coverage of Russian, Eurasian and East European issues.
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Coverage of Russian, Eurasian and East European issues.
Dostoevsky
Author: Joseph Frank
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language—and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works—from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language—and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works—from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.