A history of Russian literature /
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 o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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 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.