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The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together
prominent international specialists in the study of Russian
literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading
academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United
Kingdom, Russia, and Israel. Their essays propose new approaches
and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes
central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse,
history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian
cultural ties. The chapters of this book cover such towering
figures of modern Russian letters as Pushkin, Gogol, Akhmatova,
Mandelshtam, Nabokov, and Pasternak. The volume is dedicated to the
distinguished authority in Russian poetry and comparative literary
studies, Professor of Princeton University Michael Wachtel.
For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a
small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters
such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known
works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and
Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The
medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian
lyric poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, are almost
completely terra incognita, as are the complex prose experiments of
Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Leskov, Andrei Belyi, and Andrei Platonov.
Furthermore, those writers who have made an impact are generally
known outside of the contexts in which they wrote and in which
their work has been received.
In this engaging book, Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky
provide a comprehensive, conceptually challenging history of
Russian literature, including prose, poetry and drama. Each of the
ten chapters deals with a bounded time period from medieval Rus' to
the present. In a number of cases, chapters overlap
chronologically, thereby allowing a given period to be seen in more
than one context. To tell the story of each period, the authors
provide an introductory essay touching on the highpoints of its
development and then concentrate on one biography, one literary or
cultural event, and one literary work, which serve as prisms
through which the main outlines of a given period's development can
be discerned. Although the focus is on literature, individual
works, lives and events are placed in broad historical context as
well as in the framework of parallel developments in Russian art
and music
The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the
beginning of Russia's troubled history and has been dealt with
repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical,
political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not
only as a medical or psychological matter, but also as a
metaphysical one, encompassing problems of suffering, imagination,
history, sex, social and world order, evil, retribution, death, and
the afterlife. Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture represents a
joint effort by American, British, and Russian scholars -
historians, literary scholars, sociologists, cultural theorists,
and philosophers - to understand the rich history of madness in the
political, literary, and cultural spheres of Russia. Editors Angela
Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky have brought together essays that
cover over 250 years and address a wide variety of ideas related to
madness - from the involvement of state and social structures in
questions of mental health, to the attitudes of major Russian
authors and cultural figures towards insanity and how those
attitudes both shape and are shaped by the history, culture, and
politics of Russia.
The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated
by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy
and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the
historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically,
nineteenth-century Russia was also consumed with a passion for
spiritualist activities such as table-rappings, seances of spirit
communication, and materialization of the 'spirits.' Ghostly
Paradoxes examines the surprising relationship between spiritualist
beliefs and practices and the positivist mindset of the Russian Age
of Realism (1850-80) to demonstrate the ways in which the two
disparate movements influenced each other. Foregrounding the
important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the
period's aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological debates, Ilya
Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered
spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues
of the time. Ghostly Paradoxes is an innovative work of literary
scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist
authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that
both movements can be understood only when examined together.
The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky
(1783-1852)-poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor
of Pushkin-this book brings overdue attention to an important
figure in Russian literary and cultural history. Vinitsky's
"psychological biography" argues that Zhukovsky very consciously
set out to create for himself an emotional life reflecting his
unique brand of romanticism, different from what we associate with
Pushkin or poets such as Byron or Wordsworth. For Zhukovsky, ideal
love was harmonious, built on a mystical foundation of spiritual
kinship. Vinitsky shows how Zhukovksy played a pivotal role in the
evolution of ideas central to Russia's literary and cultural
identity from the end of the eighteenth century into the decades
following the Napoleonic Wars.
The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky
(1783-1852)-poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor
of Pushkin-this book brings overdue attention to an important
figure in Russian literary and cultural history. Vinitsky's
"psychological biography" argues that Zhukovsky very consciously
set out to create for himself an emotional life reflecting his
unique brand of romanticism, different from what we associate with
Pushkin or poets such as Byron or Wordsworth. For Zhukovsky, ideal
love was harmonious, built on a mystical foundation of spiritual
kinship. Vinitsky shows how Zhukovksy played a pivotal role in the
evolution of ideas central to Russia's literary and cultural
identity from the end of the eighteenth century into the decades
following the Napoleonic Wars.
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