The North in Russian Romantic Literature

The North in Russian Romantic Literature
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Publisher : Rodopi
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9051839944
ISBN-13 : 9789051839944
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The North in Russian Romantic Literature by : Otto Boele

This book explores the North in Russian romantic literature as a symbol of national particularity. It largely ignores the vogue of Ossian, being primarily concerned with the significance of the North for Russia's national self-image. The author demonstrates how, starting with Lomonosov, the North initially functions as a symbol of Russia's 'new' European identity. Gradually it acquires a different ideological charge, giving voice to growing resentment over the inroads of western culture. By the turn of the century, the North no longer denotes Russia's supposed Europeanness, but its 'unique national' spirit, believed to have been polluted by the slavish imitation of the West. By this time, the theme of winter was discovered as an appropriate vehicle for the expression of nationalist sentiments, culminating in the popular myth of the winter of 1812 as an ally of the Russian people. This study also investigates the theme of 'northern homesickness' as opposed to the lure of the South and concludes by examining the national stereotypes of Russia's northern neighbours, the Swedes and the Finns.

The North in Russian Romantic Literature

The North in Russian Romantic Literature
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9789004647930
ISBN-13 : 9004647937
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The North in Russian Romantic Literature by : Boele

This book explores the North in Russian romantic literature as a symbol of national particularity. It largely ignores the vogue of Ossian, being primarily concerned with the significance of the North for Russia's national self-image. The author demonstrates how, starting with Lomonosov, the North initially functions as a symbol of Russia's 'new' European identity. Gradually it acquires a different ideological charge, giving voice to growing resentment over the inroads of western culture. By the turn of the century, the North no longer denotes Russia's supposed Europeanness, but its 'unique national' spirit, believed to have been polluted by the slavish imitation of the West. By this time, the theme of winter was discovered as an appropriate vehicle for the expression of nationalist sentiments, culminating in the popular myth of the winter of 1812 as an ally of the Russian people. This study also investigates the theme of 'northern homesickness' as opposed to the lure of the South and concludes by examining the national stereotypes of Russia's northern neighbours, the Swedes and the Finns.

The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature

The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 687
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ISBN-10 : 9781108497060
ISBN-13 : 1108497063
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature by : Patrick Vincent

Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.

Empire and the Gothic

Empire and the Gothic
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9781403919342
ISBN-13 : 1403919348
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Empire and the Gothic by : A. Smith

This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for postcolonial ends. Post-Colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re-examine the ostensibly colonialist writings of William Beckford, Charlotte Dacre, H. Rider Haggard and Bram Stoker. Contributors include Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Punter and Neil Cornwell.

Russian Literature and Empire

Russian Literature and Empire
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9780521444439
ISBN-13 : 0521444438
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Russian Literature and Empire by : Susan Layton

Provides a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the 19th-century age of empire-building.

Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature

Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0271041536
ISBN-13 : 9780271041537
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature by : Lauren G. Leighton

It deals extensively with Decembrism, the political conspiracy so known after its culmination in a failed attempt to overthrow the tsarist autocracy in December 1825. The Decembrist writers and other romantics influenced by Freemasonry, including Kondraty Ryleyev, Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, and Alexander Pushkin, were adept in the application of thaumaturgical skills to literature.

The Russian Cold

The Russian Cold
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781805399285
ISBN-13 : 1805399284
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Russian Cold by : Julia Herzberg

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of “cold” in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.

Beyond the North Wind

Beyond the North Wind
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Publisher : Weiser Books
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781633410909
ISBN-13 : 1633410900
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the North Wind by : Christopher McIntosh

"The North" is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, it continues to resonate today within modern culture. McIntosh leads readers, chapter by chapter, through the magical and spiritual history of the North, as well as its modern manifestations, as documented through physical records, such as runestones and megaliths, but also through mythology and lore. This mythic conception of a unique, powerful, and mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as "Hyberborea"--the "Land Beyond the North Wind"--which they considered to be the true origin place of their god, Apollo, bringer of civilization. Through the Greeks, this concept of the mythic North would spread throughout Western civilization. In addition, McIntosh discusses Russian Hyperboreanism, which he describes as among "the most influential of the new religions and quasi-religious movements that have sprung up in Russia since the fall of Communism" and which is currently almost unknown in the West.

Montaging Pushkin

Montaging Pushkin
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Publisher : Rodopi
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9789042020122
ISBN-13 : 9042020121
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Montaging Pushkin by : Alexandra Smith

Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkin's legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of Baudelaire. Furthermore it is argued that the rise of the Russian and European novel largely changed the ways Russian poets have looked at themselves and at poetic language; that novelisation of poetry is detectable in the major works of poetry that engaged in a creative dialogue with Pushkin, and that polyphonic lyric has been achieved. Alexandra Smith locates significant examples of Pushkin's cinematographic cognition of reality, suggesting that such dynamic descriptions of Petersburg helped create a highly original animated image of the city as comic apocalypse, which followers of Pushkin appropriated very successfully even as far as the late twentieth century. Montaging Pushkin will be of interest to all students of Russian poetry, as well as specialists in literary theory, European studies and the history of ideas. "Smith's thesis is both startling and original: that Pushkin, for all his Mozart-like fluidity and perfection, can be productively read as a poet of pain and violence. His reflex was to respond to the totalizing, authoritative public landscape of his era with an equally severe but specifically private, individualizing, disciplined set of demands on the Poet. The recurring attention that later generations have paid toward those aspects of Pushkin's life and texts governed by the private right to resist or to initiate violence (his duel, his struggles with the bureaucracy, his failed pursuit of service with honour) suggest that this mythologeme is among the most productive in Pushkin's astonishing legacy" CARYL EMERSON (A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Chair of the Slavic Department, Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University) "Smith's innovative study offers a wonderful analysis of how cinematographic editing and polyphony are detected in Russian twentieth-century poetry... It views Pushkin as a "reference obligee" of contemporary urban poetry" VERONIQUE LOSSKY (Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at the Universite de Paris-Sorbonne IV)

Reading Russian Literature, 1980–2024

Reading Russian Literature, 1980–2024
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9783031698163
ISBN-13 : 3031698169
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Russian Literature, 1980–2024 by : Otto Boele