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Tradition and Innovation in Russian Church Slavonic Hymnography (Hardcover)
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Tradition and Innovation in Russian Church Slavonic Hymnography (Hardcover)
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Liturgical languages are notoriously rigid: they are fixed, sacred,
and resistant to change, despite surrounding linguistic
developments. This work focuses on the highly specialized and
stylized liturgical language of Russian Church Slavonic (RCS).
Historically, authorities strictly controlled RCS so that it would
conform to established norms. Nevertheless, innovations arose in
response to various conditions. One wave of innovations, spanning
the 16th-18th centuries, was a long and deliberate process, leading
to the codification of RCS grammar and the renovation of liturgical
texts. Another wave of innovations in RCS was incidental and took
place following sudden upheaval, namely the Bolshevik Revolution
and subsequent emigration abroad of Orthodox Christians that
resulted in an international diaspora. Detached from traditional
institutional structures, the ultimate result was freedom for the
hymnographer to innovate. This work analyses both waves of RCS
innovations: the reforms of the 16th-18th centuries as seen in
hymnography from those centuries, and the 20th century compositions
of Valeria Hoecke, a self-taught hymnographer of the Russian
diaspora. Hoecke's hymnography demonstrates what can happen to a
liturgical language when traditional language controls are absent.
In both older and newer hymnography, this work analyzes person and
viewpoint, as well as participles, verbs, and overall formal
structure of the compositions. Until now, the tendency has been to
describe RCS through the lens of another language. In the 16th-18th
centuries, for example, grammarians wrote books modeling RCS
grammar on that of Greek or Latin; more recently, 20th-21st century
grammarians model RCS grammar on that of Old Church Slavonic or
modern Russian. The present work is unique in its demonstration
that previous analyses of RCS have obscured certain grammatical and
rhetorical structures. This work shows that RCS--both old and
new--has its own distinct formal structure and systems of person
and viewpoint, participles, and verbs.
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