The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia /

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The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theolo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levitt, Marcus C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Colección:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Temas:
Russian literature > History and criticism > 18th century.
Russian literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Vision in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
Cultural Studies.
Literary Studies.
Soviet & East European History.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, sight in eighteenth-century Russian, effects of visuals on formation of early modern Russian culture and identity, Russian quest for visibility, intersections of Russian literature and the visual.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Prolegomena
  • 2 The Moment of the Muses
  • 3 Bogovidenie
  • 4 The Staging of the Self
  • 5 Virtue Must Advertise
  • 6 The Seen, the Unseen, and the Obvious
  • 7 The Icon That Started a Riot
  • The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev's Journey
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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