Research Catalog
A history of Russian literature
- Title
- A history of Russian literature / Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler.
- Author
- Kahn, Andrew.
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
- Supplementary Content
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 18-1178 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 939 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Russian literature
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 771-910) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. The Medieval Period; Introduction: Defining the medieval; 1. Institutions and contexts: Writing and authorship,1100-1400; A new language for a new people: Old Church Slavonic; Monastic writing: Translation, open boundaries, and selectivity
- The limits of the literary system: Rhetoric, compilation, and genreThe meaning of readership; Scribal culture and the author function; Literary identity: Collective writing and singularity; Case study: The Voyage of Afanasy Nikitin: Self and other; 2. Holy Rus:́ Landmarks in medieval literature; Founding stories: The Primary Chronicle; Case study: The bylina and Russia's magical kingdom; The sermon: Ilarion and the chosen people of Kiev; The prayer: Daniil Zatochnik; Hagiography as life-writing; Saints alive; Hagiographic collections; Founders and Holy Fathers: The example of St. Feodosy
- Miracle workers, the Virgin, and holy foolsCase study: The holy fool in the modern tradition; Ilarion redux: The fifteenth-century elaboration of hagiography; Keyword: Word-weaving; 3. Local narratives; Unhappy families: The trauma of invasion; The Lay of Igor's Campaign and the princely image; Case study: National identity, medievalism, and the discovery of the Lay of Igor's Campaign; Narratives of invasion; Catastrophic narratives: Defending Holy Russia; From Grand Prince to Tsar, 1200-1565: Elevation through charisma; Vladimir Monomakh; Alexander Nevsky; Dmitry Donskoi
- Ivan the Terrible: Tsardom and the absolutist "I"Center and periphery and the localism of the Tale of Petr and Fevronia; Conclusion; Part II: The Seventeenth Century; Introduction: The problem of transition and a new approach; 1. Paradise lost: National narratives; Narratives from the Time of Troubles to the Schism (1613-82); Visions of salvation; Case study: Dukhovnye stikhi (poetic songs or spiritual rhymes); Literature of the Schism (Raskol); Case study: The Life of Archpriest Avvakum
- 2. Cultural interface: Printing, Humanist learning, and Orthodox resistance in the second half of the seventeenth century3. Court theater; Keyword: Baroque; 4. Poets; New expressions and techniques; Paradise regained: Simeon Polotsky's poetic garden; Friendship; Mortality; 5. Prose; Popular fiction for a disrupted age: Social satire or literary fantasy?; Petrine novellas and fantasy fiction; Conclusion; Part III: The Eighteenth Century; Introduction: The innovation of the eighteenth century; 1. Defining classicism: The canons of taste; Keyword: Russian classicism
- Call Number
- JFF 18-1178
- ISBN
- 0199663947
- 9780199663941
- LCCN
- 2017909825
- OCLC
- 1007064225
- Author
- Kahn, Andrew.
- Title
- A history of Russian literature / Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 771-910) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)Reyfman, Irina.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 18-1178