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Acts of Logos examines the 19th-century foundations of St.
Petersburg's famous literary heritage, with a focus on the unifying
principle of material animation. Ever since Pushkin's 1833 poem The
Bronze Horseman, the city has provided a literary space in which
inanimate things (noses, playing cards, overcoats) spring to life.
Scollins's book addresses this issue of animacy by analyzing the
powerful function of language in the city's literature, from its
mythic origins-in which the tsar Peter appears as a God-like
creator, calling his city forth from nothing-to the earliest texts
of its literary tradition, when poets took up the pen to commit
their own acts of verbal creation. Her interpretations shed new
light on the canonical works of Pushkin and Gogol, exposing the
performative and subversive possibilities of the poetic word in the
Petersburg tradition, and revealing an emerging literary culture
capable of challenging the official narratives of the state.
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