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The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian literary imagination : iconic vision in works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and others
- Title
- The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian literary imagination : iconic vision in works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and others / Leonard J. Stanton.
- Author
- Stanton, Leonard J.
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, 1995.
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- Description
- xvi, 307 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Between 1821 and 1891, the Optina Pustyn Monastery of Kozel'sk, in Russia's Kaluga Government, was the site of an unprecedented - and as yet unequaled - period of religious and literary flowering. Optina Pustyn was a mecca for many of Russia's most prominent writers and thinkers. Distinguished visitors included Ivan Kireevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy. This study explains why Optina and its renowned "elders" held a special attraction to Russia's literary giants. It reveals how the elders' use of language was rooted in the "iconic vision" of Optina's fifteen-hundred-year-old tradition of contemplative monasticism. It is the first study to examine Optina's social gravity against the broad background of nineteenth-century institutions of Church and Intelligentsia."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; v. 3
- Uniform Title
- Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; v. 3.
- Subjects
- Russisch
- Optina Pustyn
- Russisch-Orthodoxe Kerk
- Rezeption
- Invloed
- Religiöses Bewusstsein
- Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ In literature
- Letterkunde
- Schriftsteller
- Russian literature > Christian influences
- Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Literatur
- Russland
- Kozelʹskai͡a Vvedenskai͡a Optina (Monastery) History
- Orthodox Eastern Church In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- "An annotated bibliography of Optina publications" (p. [265]-276).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-299) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Space, Time, and Language in Inverse Perspective: Iconic Vision and its Path to Russia -- Ch. 2. A Quiet Hermitage: Aesthetics and Ecclesiastical Institutions -- Ch. 3. The Optina Intelligentsia: Institutions of Society and Literature -- Ch. 4. Icarus: Belinsky and Elder Makarii on Gogol's Spiritual Fall -- Ch. 5. Zedergol'm's Life of Elder Leonid and Optina's Influence on Dostoevsky -- Ch. 6. Prodigal Fathers, Merciful Sons, and Alyosha Karamazov's Sister -- Ch. 7. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and the Problem of Going Away -- Ch. 8. The Optina Idea after Dostoevsky: Its Critical and Philosophical Reception -- An Annotated Bibliography of Optina Publications.
- ISBN
- 0820416975
- 9780820416977
- LCCN
- 92007327
- 99937652152
- OCLC
- ocm25411166\
- 25411166
- SCSB-3296685
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries