Early Modern Russian Letters : Texts and Contexts /

Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levitt, Marcus (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]
Colección:Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
Temas:
1700-1799
Russian literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Littérature russe > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Part One. SUMAROKOV AND THE LITERA RY PROCESS OF HIS TIME
  • Preface
  • 1. Sumarokov: Life and Works
  • 2. Sumarokov's Reading at the Academy of Sciences Library
  • 3. Censorship and Provocation: Th e Publishing History of Sumarokov's "Two Epistles"
  • 4. Slander, Polemic, Criticism: Trediakovskii's "Letter ... from a Friend to a Friend" of 1750 and the Problem of Creating Russian Literary Criticism
  • 5. Sumarokov's Russianized "Hamlet": Texts and Contexts
  • 6. Sumarokov's Drama "Th e Hermit": On the Generic and Intellectual Sources of Russian Classicism
  • 7. "Th e First Russian Ballet": Sumarokov's "Sanctuary of Virtue" (1759) Defining a New Dance
  • 8. Was Sumarokov a Lockean Sensualist? On Locke's Reception in Eighteenth-Century Russia
  • 9. Barkoviana and Russian Classicism
  • 10. Th e Illegal Staging of Sumarokov's Sinav and Truvor in 1770 and the Problem of Authorial Status in Eighteenth-Century Russia
  • 11. Sumarokov and the Unified Poetry Book: His Triumphal Odes and Love Elegies Th rough the Prism of Tradition
  • 12. Th e Barbarians Among Us, or Sumarokov's Views on Orthography
  • Part Two. VISUALITY AND ORTHODOXY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN CULTURE
  • Preface
  • 13. Th e Rapprochement Between "Secular" and "Religious" in Mid to Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Culture
  • 14. The "Obviousness" of the Truth in Eighteenth-Century Russian Th ought
  • 15. Th e Theological Context of Lomonosov's "Evening" and "Morning Meditations on God's Majesty"
  • 16. The Ode as Revelation: On the Orthodox Theological Context of Lomonosov's Odes
  • 17. An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great's Debate with Chappe d'Auteroche over Russian Culture
  • 18. The Polemic with Rousseau over Gender and Sociability in E.S. Urusova's Polion (1774)
  • 19. Virtue Must Advertise: Self Presentation in Dashkova's Memoirs
  • 20. The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev's Journey fr om Petersburg to Moscow
  • Sources
  • Index

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