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Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Hardcover, New)
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Victor Zhivov's magisterial "Language and Culture in
Eighteenth-Century Russia" tells the story of the creation of a new
vernacular literary language in modern Russia, an achievement
arguably on a par with the nation's extraordinary military
successes, territorial expansion, development of the arts and
formation of a modern empire. The language served as the primary
vehicle for Russia's modernization and for its entry into the
Western European cultural sphere, and Zhivov demonstrates that the
unusually intense debates over it, down to violent disagreements
over particular grammatical endings, have profound implications for
understanding the basic social, political, and cultural dynamics of
the era. "Language and Culture" analyzes the European theories
concerning modern literary languages that were transplanted into
Russia and demonstrates the ways in which they were creatively
transformed when adapted to the complex legacy of medieval and
seventeenth-century literary culture. Zhivov traces this creative
adaptation from the "hybrid Slavonic" of the late seventeenth
century; through Peter the Great's demand for a new Russian
vernacular literary language; to the "Slaveno-Russian" linguistic
and cultural synthesis of mid-century and the beginnings of a
Russian literary tradition; to the early nineteenth-century debates
between "archaists and innovators"; and fi nally to the subsequent
decoupling of secular and religious language and culture that in
his view represented the last echo of eighteenth-century debates.
Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia fundamentally
revises much of the received wisdom concerning the development of
the literary language and offers fundamentally new perspectives on
the genesis and development of modern Russian language, literature,
and culture.
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