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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826154103321

Autore

Ram Harsha

Titolo

The imperial sublime : a Russian poetics of empire / / Harsha Ram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003

ISBN

0-299-18193-6

1-282-26912-7

9786612269127

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 307 pages)

Collana

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

Disciplina

891.709/384

Soggetti

Russian literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Poetics - History - 18th century

Poetics - History - 19th century

Sublime, The, in literature

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 (p. 267-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sublime beginnings -- The ode and the empress -- Sublime dissent -- Pushkin, Lermontov and the elegiac sublime.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the creation and evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840 - a century during which poets defined the central questions facing Russian literature and society.