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UNINA9910787136903321 |
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Levitt Marcus C. <1954-> |
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The visual dominant in eighteenth-century Russia / / Marcus C. Levitt ; Shaun Allshouse, design |
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DeKalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2011 |
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1-5017-5798-9 |
1-60909-026-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies |
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Russian literature - History and criticism - 18th century |
Visual perception in literature |
Vision in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity.Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the special character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking work represents both a new reading of various central and lesser known texts and a broader revisualization of Russian |
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eighteenth-century culture.Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment. |
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UNINA9910781097403321 |
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The globalization of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : diplomacy and local confrontation, 1975-85 / / edited by Max Guderzo and Bruna Bagnato |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
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1-135-18097-0 |
1-282-97451-3 |
9786612974519 |
0-203-86181-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GuderzoMax |
BagnatoBruna <1959-> |
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World politics - 1975-1985 |
Cold War - Diplomatic history |
United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I The Latin American arena; 1 Carter's new look: US foreign policy in Latin America, 1977-80; 2 Operation Urgent Fury: The shift from rhetorical to military offensive in Reagan's global rollback of communism; Part II African challenges; 3 Libya, the United States and the Soviet Union: From the rise of Qadhafi to Ronald Reagan's policy of pressure; 4 Human rights versus Cold War: The Horn of Africa, |
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Southwest Asia and the emergence of the Carter Doctrine |
5 Carter and the African morass: US policy and the failure of the state-building process in Angola and the Congo6 East-South relations in the 1970s and the GDR involvement in Africa: Between bloc loyalty and self-interest; Part III War and peace in Asia; 7 The United States and the Iran-Iraq war: The limits of American influence; 8 The United States and the Third World in the Carter years: The case of India; 9 The Sino-American entente of 1978-79 and its 'baptism of fire'in Indochina; Part IV Adifferent world; 10 The international system after the end of the Cold War; Index |
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This book focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the years 1975-85, highlighting the transformation from bipolar US-Soviet competition to global confrontation.Offering a detailed analysis of this fundamental shift that occurred during this period, as well as the interconnections of this process with the new industrial-technological revolution, this book demonstrates how the United States returned to a position of global economic leadership. In so doing, the book aims to challenge the traditional and misleading paradigm that interprets the gradual development of the Co |
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