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

• Autore: Levitt Marcus C. <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 437 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 891.709/002
• Soggetto topico: Russian literature - 18th century - History and criticism
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Early modern Russian letters
• ISBN: 1-61811-674-6; 1-61811-129-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910251407303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.