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Record Nr.

UNINA9910251407303321

Autore

Levitt Marcus C. <1954->

Titolo

Early modern Russian letters [[electronic resource] ] : texts and contexts : selected essays / / by Marcus C. Levitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2009

ISBN

1-61811-674-6

1-61811-129-9

Descrizione fisica

viii, 437 p. : ill

Collana

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Disciplina

891.709/002

Soggetti

Russian literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sumarokov and the literary process of his time -- Visuality and orthodoxy in eighteenth-century Russian culture.

Sommario/riassunto

Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores the career and works of Alexander Sumarokov, who played a formative role in literary life of his day. In the essays of the second part Levitt argues that the Enlightenment's privileging of vision played an especially important role in eighteenth-century Russian self-image, and that its "occularcentrism" was profoundly shaped by Orthodox religious views. Early Modern Russian Letters offers a series of original and provocative explorations of a vital but little studied period.