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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459674703321

Autore

Levitt Marcus C. <1954->

Titolo

The visual dominant in eighteenth-century Russia / / Marcus C. Levitt ; Shaun Allshouse, design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

DeKalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-5017-5798-9

1-60909-026-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Disciplina

891.709/002

Soggetti

Russian literature - History and criticism - 18th century

Visual perception in literature

Vision in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: An archaeology of vision -- Prolegomena: Making Russia visible -- The moment of the muses: Lomonosov's odes -- Bogovidenie: Orthodox vision and the odes -- The staging of the self -- Virtue must advertise: The ethics of vision -- The seen, the unseen, and the obvious -- The icon that started a riot -- The dialectic of vision in Radishchev's journey -- Conclusion: Russian culture as a mirage.