The Imperial SublimeThe Imperial Sublime

2006-03-31 Harsha Ram

Review: "The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme alongside the creation and evolution of modern Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840.

Author: Harsha Ram

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

ISBN: 0299181944

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Review: "The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme alongside the creation and evolution of modern Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840. Arising from the need to celebrate the Russian state and its expanding territories, the imperial theme quickly became enmeshed in a wider range of issues, from formal problems of gene, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and Russia's ruling monarchs." "Part of a growing body of recent scholarship that has examined Russian representations of Russia's southern borderlands in the light of European orientalism and imperialism, The Imperial Sublime shows how the broader cultural discourses of empire can be adapted and inflected by a national literary system."--BOOK JACKET

Translation and the Making of Modern Russian LiteratureTranslation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature

2015-11-19 Brian James Baer

The Russian empire, “the largest and most diverse territorial empire the world has ever seen” (Hosking 1997:3), is a rich source for the study of translation and national identity. Russia has been a large, multilingual, ...

Author: Brian James Baer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781628928013

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Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature. Peter I's policy of forced Westernization resulted in translation becoming a widely discussed and highly visible practice in Russia, a multi-lingual empire with a polyglot elite. Yet Russia's accumulation of cultural capital through translation occurred at a time when the Romantic obsession with originality was marginalizing translation as mere imitation. The awareness on the part of Russian writers that their literature and, by extension, their cultural identity were “born in translation” produced a sustained and sophisticated critique of Romantic authorship and national identity that has long been obscured by the nationalist focus of traditional literary studies. By offering a re-reading of seminal works of the Russian literary canon that thematize translation, alongside studies of the circulation and reception of specific translated texts, Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature models the long overdue integration of translation into literary and cultural studies.

A History of Russian LiteratureA History of Russian Literature

2018-04-05 Andrew Kahn

See Susan Layton, Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia's Border (Toronto: University of Toronto ...

Author: Andrew Kahn

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780192549525

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Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day.The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century. The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular bring out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time-range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.

Reference Guide to Russian LiteratureReference Guide to Russian Literature

2013-12-02 Neil Cornwell

Women in Russian Literature, 1780-1863, London, Macmillan, and New York, St Martin's Press, 1988. Andrew, Joe. ... Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy, Cambridge and ...

Author: Neil Cornwell

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134260706

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Routledge Companion to Russian LiteratureThe Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

2002-06-01 Neil Cornwell

Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Leighton, Lauren G. Russian Romanticism, The Hague: Mouton. 1975. — (ed. ) ...

Author: Neil Cornwell

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134569069

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The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.

A World of EmpiresA World of Empires

2018-04-16 Edyta M. Bojanowska

There has been little critical work on race in Russian literature. Empire studies have never become the academic juggernaut comparable to parallel developments in English, French, or Spanish literary studies. On race and Russian ...

Author: Edyta M. Bojanowska

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 9780674985704

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Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1850s, American Commodore Matthew Perry embarked on a legendary expedition to open trade relations with Japan. Less well known is the Russian expedition that followed on his heels. Serving aboard the Russian Frigate Pallada was the novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a bestselling book. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s travelogue as a window onto mid-19th century global imperialism. Goncharov recounts experiences in Africa’s Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, offering keen insight on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Often overlooked in the history of European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov’s gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Bojanowska’s illuminating analysis reveals both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them. A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year

The Imperial SublimeThe Imperial Sublime

2003-09-12 Harsha Ram

To this list we must add two recent books on the subject of Russian literature and empire—Sahni, Crucifying the Orient ... Russian philology and historiography has extensively discussed literary representations of the Caucasus and the ...

Author: Harsha Ram

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

ISBN: 9780299181901

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Review: "The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme alongside the creation and evolution of modern Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840. Arising from the need to celebrate the Russian state and its expanding territories, the imperial theme quickly became enmeshed in a wider range of issues, from formal problems of gene, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and Russia's ruling monarchs." "Part of a growing body of recent scholarship that has examined Russian representations of Russia's southern borderlands in the light of European orientalism and imperialism, The Imperial Sublime shows how the broader cultural discourses of empire can be adapted and inflected by a national literary system."--BOOK JACKET

Black PrometheusBlack Prometheus

2017 Jared Hickman

Susan Layton, Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 71–88; see also Baum, Caucasian Race, 219-33. 102. Ditson, Circassia, vii, 311. 103.

Author: Jared Hickman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190272586

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The Prometheus myth, for several reasons became a crucial site for conceptualizing human liberation in the immanent space of a finite globe structured by white domination and black slavery. The titan's defiant theft of fire from the regnant gods was translated through a high-stakes racial coding either as an 'African' revolt against the cosmic status quo that augured a pure autonomy, a black revolutionary immanence against which idealist philosophers like Hegel defined their projects and slaveholders defended their lives and positions. Or as a 'Caucasian' reflection of the divine power evidently working in favor of Euro-Christian civilization that transmuted the naked egoism of conquest into a righteous heteronomy-Euro-Christian civilization's mobilization by the Absolute or its internalization of a transcendent principle of universal Reason.

Writing at Russia s BorderWriting at Russia s Border

2008-01-01 Katya Hokanson

10 Layton, Russian Literature and Empire, Lewis Bagby and Pavel Sigalov, 'The Semiotics of Names and Naming in Tolstoj's The Cossacks,' Slavic and East European Journal 31, no. 4 (Winter 1987): 473–89, Andrew D. Kaufman, ...

Author: Katya Hokanson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 9780802093066

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It is often assumed that cultural identity is determined in a country's metropolitan centres. Given Russia's long tenure as a geographically and socially diverse empire, however, there is a certain distillation of peripheral experiences and ideas that contributes just as much to theories of national culture as do urban-centred perspectives. Writing at Russia's Border argues that Russian literature needs to be reexamined in light of the fact that many of its most important nineteenth-century texts are peripheral, not in significance but in provenance. Katya Hokanson makes the case that the fluid and ever-changing cultural and linguistic boundaries of Russia's border regions profoundly influenced the nation's literature, posing challenges to stereotypical or territorially based conceptions of Russia's imperial, military, and cultural identity. A highly canonical text such as Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1831), which is set in European Russia, is no less dependent on the perspectives of those living at the edges of the Russian Empire than is Tolstoy's The Cossacks (1863), which is explicitly set on Russia's border and has become central to the Russian canon. Hokanson cites the influence of these and other 'periphera' texts as proof that Russia's national identity was dependent upon the experiences of people living in the border areas of an expanding empire. Produced at a cultural moment of contrast and exchange, the literature of the periphery represented a negotiation of different views of Russian identity, an ingredient that was ultimately essential even to literature produced in the major cities. Writing at Russia's Border upends popular ideas of national cultural production and is a fascinating study of the social implications of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

A History of Russia Volume 1A History of Russia Volume 1

2003-07-01 Walter G. Moss

LeDonne, John P. The Russian Empire and the World, 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment. ... Russian Foreign Policy: From Empire to NationState. ... Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition.

Author: Walter G. Moss

Publisher: Anthem Press

ISBN: 9780857287526

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This new edition retains the features of the first edition that made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world. Moss's accessible history includes full treatment of everyday life, the role of women, rural life, law, religion, literature and art. In addition, it provides many other features that have proven successful, including: a well-organized and clearly written text, references to varying historical perspectives, numerous illustrations and maps, fully updated bibliographies accompanying each chapter as well as a general bibliography, a glossary, and chronological and genealogical lists.