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The Poetics of Impudence and Intimacy in the Age of Pushkin (Paperback)
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In early nineteenth-century Russia, members of jocular literary
societies gathered to recite works written in the lightest of
genres: the friendly verse epistle, the burlesque, the epigram, the
comic narrative poem, the prose parody. In a period marked by the
Decembrist Uprising and heightened state scrutiny into private
life, these activities were hardly considered frivolous; such works
and the domestic, insular spaces within which they were created
could be seen by the Russian state as rebellious, at times even
treasonous. Joe Peschio offers the first comprehensive history of a
set of associated behaviours known in Russian as "shalosti," a word
which at the time could refer to provocative behaviours like
practical joking, insubordination, ritual humiliation, or
vandalism, among other things, but also to literary manifestations
of these behaviours such as the use of obscenities in poems,
impenetrably obscure allusions, and all manner of literary inside
jokes. One of the period's most fashionable literary and social
poses became this complex of behaviours taken together. Peschio
explains the importance of literary shalosti as a form of challenge
to the legitimacy of existing literary institutions and sometimes
the Russian regime itself. Working with a wide variety of primary
texts-from verse epistles to denunciations, etiquette manuals, and
previously unknown archival materials-Peschio argues that the
formal innovations fuelled by such "prankish" types of literary
behaviour posed a greater threat to the watchful Russian government
and the literary institutions it fostered than did ordinary civic
verse or overtly polemical prose.
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