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The Poetics of Impudence and Intimacy in the Age of Pushkin /
In early nineteenth-century Russia, members of jocular literary societies gathered to recite works written in the lightest of genres: the friendly verse epistle, the burlesque, the epigram, the comic narrative poem, the prose parody. In a period marked by the Decembrist Uprising and heightened state...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In early nineteenth-century Russia, members of jocular literary societies gathered to recite works written in the lightest of genres: the friendly verse epistle, the burlesque, the epigram, the comic narrative poem, the prose parody. In a period marked by the Decembrist Uprising and heightened state scrutiny into private life, these activities were hardly considered frivolous; such works and the domestic, insular spaces within which they were created could be seen by the Russian state as rebellious, at times even treasonous. This book is a history of the set of associated behaviors known in Russian as "shalosti," a word which at the time could refer to provocative behaviors like practical joking, insubordination, ritual humiliation, or vandalism, among other things, but also to literary manifestations of these behaviors such as the use of obscenities in poems, impenetrably obscure allusions, and all manner of literary inside jokes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (173 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780299290436 |