04009nam 2200673 450 991082020180332120230725055429.01-5017-5798-91-60909-026-810.1515/9781501757983(CKB)3710000000274820(EBL)3382598(SSID)ssj0001339613(PQKBManifestationID)11865574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339613(PQKBWorkID)11372402(PQKB)10329318(MiAaPQ)EBC3382598(OCoLC)868220376(MdBmJHUP)muse29661(Au-PeEL)EBL3382598(CaPaEBR)ebr10950083(OCoLC)923311044(DE-B1597)572251(DE-B1597)9781501757983(EXLCZ)99371000000027482020141016h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe visual dominant in eighteenth-century Russia /Marcus C. Levitt ; Shaun Allshouse, designDeKalb, Illinois :NIU Press,2011.©20111 online resource (357 p.)NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesIncludes index.0-87580-442-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 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.Russian literatureHistory and criticism18th centuryVisual perception in literatureVision in literatureindigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, sight in eighteenth-century Russian, effects of visuals on formation of early modern Russian culture and identity, Russian quest for visibility, intersections of Russian literature and the visual.Russian literatureHistory and criticismVisual perception in literature.Vision in literature.891.709/002Levitt Marcus C.1954-916900Allshouse ShaunMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820201803321The visual dominant in eighteenth-century Russia3928325UNINA