| Description |
1 online resource (x, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Ars Rossika |
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Ars Rossika.
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| Contents |
Writing, ranks, and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience -- What makes a gentleman? : revisiting Gogol's Notes of a madman -- Writing and the anxiety of rank : Pushkin's prose fiction -- Pushkin the Kammerherr : on Pushkin's social reputation in the 1830s -- Poetic justice and injustice : autobiographical echoes in Pushkin's The captain's daughter -- Kammerjunker in Notes of a madman : Gogol's view of Pushkin -- Death and mutilation at the dueling site : Pushkin's death as a national spectacle -- The sixth tale of Belkin : Mikhail Zoshchenko as Proteus -- Turgenev's Death and Tolstoy's Three deaths -- Female voice and male gaze in Leo Tolstoy's Family happiness -- Tolstoy and Gogol : Notes of a madman -- Tolstoy the wanderer and the quest for adequate expression -- Alexey Rzhevsky, Russian mannerist -- Imagery of time and eternity in eighteenth-century Russian poetry : Mikhail Muravʹev and Semyon Bobrov -- Dishonor by flogging and restoration by dancing : Leskov's response to Dostoevsky |
| Summary |
Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the essays focus on the interaction of life and literature. In the first part, Reyfman examines how obligatory state service and the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers'view of themselves as professionals, raising questions about whether the existence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. The sections that follow bring together articles on Pushkin, writer and man, as seen by himself and others, essays on Leo Tolstoy, and other aspects of Russian literary and cultural history. In addition to examining little-studied writers and works, Rank and Style offers new approaches to well-studied literary personalities and texts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Die Stadt ohne Juden gnd |
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Russian literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Literature
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Russian literature
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Schriftsteller
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Sozialstatus
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Öffentlicher Dienst
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Literatur
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| SUBJECT |
Russia -- In literature
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Russia
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Russland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781618111265 |
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1618111264 |
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193623551X |
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9781936235513 |
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