Hagiography and modern Russian literature /
The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have treated examples of the influence of hagiographic writing on a few prominent Russian writers, Margaret...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1988]
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Colección: | Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO: Hagiography and History: The Saintly Prince in the Poetry of the Decembrists
- CHAPTER THREE: Hagiography Revised: Adaptations of Legends and Tales
- CHAPTER FOUR: Neo-Hagiography: The Saintly Monk and the Holy Fool in Modern Dress
- CHAPTER FIVE: Hagiography and the Rigorous Hero: The Josephite Type in Later Russian Literature
- CHAPTER Six: Anti-Hagiography: Tolstoy's Assault on Orthodoxy
- CONCLUSION.