00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613906282 Buklod 20220826084127.0 a r |||| u| ta 211117s xx d r |||| u| 9780199663941 (iLib)UPD-00531971950 YDX DCAL rda eng DMLUC PG 2951 K34 2018 Kahn, Andrew author. A history of Russian literature Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler. Russian literature. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press [2018]. xvi, 939 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 26 cm. text rdacontent. unmediated rdamedia. volume rdacarrier. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cover; A History of Russian Literature; Copyright; Contents; Note on the Text; Dates; Translations; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The shapes of literary history; The contexts of Russian literary history; The scope and shape of the History of Russian Literature; 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 Rusâ: 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. 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. Russian literature History and criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Lipovetsky, Mark author. Reyfman, Irina author. Sandler, Stephanie author. Book FO UPD DCAL PG 2951 K34 2018 Book