Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kahn, Andrew
Lipoveckij, Mark Naumovič (1964-....)
Reyfman, Irina (1950-....)
Sandler, Stephanie (1953-....)
Titre(s) : A history of Russian literature [Texte imprimé] / Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler
Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi-939 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. 771-786. Index
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
Sujet(s) : Littérature russe
Critique littéraire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199663941 (rel.). - ISBN 0199663947
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46606881t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46606881
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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 genre; The 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 fools case 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 century; 3. 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
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 ; oets ; 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.
