Donald Rayfield

The Literature of Georgia

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - from Greek and Persian to Russian and modern European literature, and the folklore of the Caucasus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9780700711635
• ISBN-10: 0700711635
• Artikelnr.: 21550300

Autorenporträt

Donald Rayfield

Inhaltsangabe

Part I The Making of the Classical Age
Chapter 1 Laying the foundations
Chapter 2 Lyrical poetry: hymnography
Chapter 3 Original prose: from homilies to hagiography
Chapter 4 The Lives of the Fathers: Serapion Zarzmeli, Grigol Khandzteli
Chapter 5 Chronicles: The 'Conversion' & 'Life' of Georgia
Chapter 6 The dawn of secular literature: 'Balahvar & Iodasap'
Part II The Golden Age, The Fall, and The Resurrection
Chapter 7 Prose romance: Rustaveli's precursors
Chapter 8 Rustaveli & 'The Knight in the Panther Skin'
Chapter 9 Religious literature of the Golden Age
Chapter 10 The later chronicles
Chapter 11 Rebuilding on a 'tabula rasa'
Chapter 12 The authorial persona: King Teimuraz I
Chapter 13 Kings & enlightenment
Chapter 14 Three great poets: Guramishvili, Sayat-Nova & Besiki
Chapter 15 The last gasps of the eighteenth century
Part III Romantic & Civic Literature
Chapter 16 Exiled royalty: the Bagration writers
Chapter 17 Romantic poets: Chavchavadze, the Orbelianis, Baratashvili
Chapter 18 The birth of modem prose & drama
Chapter 19 The luminaries: Ilia Chavchavadze & Akaki Tsereteli
Chapter 20 Lesser luminaries: populists & pedagogues
Chapter 21 Melodrama, revolt & commercial literature
Part IV The Rediscovery of Roots
Chapter 22 Vazha-Pshavela
Chapter 23 Folk poetry & its relevance to literature
partV The Age of Internationalism
Chapter 24 Two theatres: the political arena & drama
Chapter 25 Narrative prose & Mikheil Javakhishvili
Chapter 26 Dreaming poets: Grishashvili, Robakidze & the Blue Horns
Chapter 27 Mythmakers under Socialism: Shanshiashvili, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
Chapter 28 The poetry of Galaktion Tabidze, Giorgi Leonidze & Simon Chikovani
Chapter 29 Beria's Holocaust
Chapter 30 Literature after the Great Terror
Chapter 31 From thaw to deluge