A History of Russian Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 May 2023
- ISBN 9780192864031
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages960 pages
- Size 246x172x58 mm
- Weight 1262 g
- Language English 582
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Short description:
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. This volume provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life.
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Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day. The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and personal. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century.
The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular brings out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.
This exhaustive volume represents a very significant contribution to the bibliography of Russian literary history from the medieval to the modern period. In its scope, conception, and engagement with scholarship, this is the kind of account which comes along only once every generation, a work informed by the lifelong study of four preeminent scholars of Russian literature from both sides of the Atlantic. ...The authors have been extraordinarily thorough throughout in their generous engagement with the scholarship and secondary literature in both Russian and English. ...It will inevitably feature in the comprehensive exam lists of all graduate students of Russian literature.
Table of Contents:
PART I. THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Institutions and contexts: writing and authorship, 1100-1400
Holy Russia: landmarks in medieval literature
Local narratives
PART II. THE EARLY MODERN: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Paradise Lost: National narratives
Cultural interface: printing, Humanist learning and Orthodox resistance in the second half of the seventeenth century
Court theater
Poets
Prose
PART III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Defining Classicism: the canons of taste
Institutions of writing and authorship
National narratives
Poetics and subjectivities between Classicism and Romanticism
Prose fiction
PART IV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Institutions
The Literary Field: from amateur societies to professional institutions and literary alliances
Subjectivities
Forms of Prose
Literary identity and social structure of the Imperial period
Types: Heroes and anti-heroes
Heroines and emancipation
Narratives of nation-building
PART V. THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
Institutions
The Poetics of Subjectivity
The Poetics of Language
Prose and Drama: negotiations with history
Catastrophic narratives
Intelligentsia narratives
A History of Russian Literature
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