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Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally
known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor
Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in
English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most
interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural
development, these essays examine the survival and the
reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some
of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The
essays in this collection contain some important examples of
Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions
to the history of Russian civilization.
Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
is one of the most important studies ever published on
eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian
culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was
key to the formation of a modern secular culture, and this title
traces the growth of a vernacular language from the ""hybrid
Slavonic"" of the late seventeenth century through the debates
between ""archaists and innovators"" of the early nineteenth
century. Zhivov's study is an essential work on the genesis of
modern Russian culture; the aim of this translation is to make it
available to historians and students of the field.
Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally
known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor
Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in
English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most
interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural
development, these essays examine the survival and the
reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some
of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The
essays in this collection contain some important examples of
Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions
to the history of Russian civilization.
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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