Marcus Levitt

Early Modern Russian Letters (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Marcus Levitt (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1984) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California. Dr. Levitt is known for both his work on eighteenth-century Russian culture and on Pushkin. Major publications include: Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 (Cornell University Press 1989), Early Modern Russian Writers, Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, (Volume 150) in the series The Dictionary of Literary Biography (1995; Editor and contributor) and Making Russia Visible: The Status of the Visual in Eighteenth-century Russian Literature (forthcoming).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618116741
• Artikelnr.: 54272947

Autorenporträt

Marcus Levitt (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1984) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California. Dr. Levitt is known for both his work on eighteenth-century Russian culture and on Pushkin. Major publications include: Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 (Cornell University Press 1989), Early Modern Russian Writers, Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, (Volume 150) in the series The Dictionary of Literary Biography (1995; Editor and contributor) and Making Russia Visible: The Status of the Visual in Eighteenth-century Russian Literature (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Part One: SUMAROKOV AND THE LITERARY PROCESS OF HIS TIME. Preface. 1. Sumarokov: Life and Works. 2. Sumarokov
s Reading at the Academy of Sciences Library. 3. Censorship and Provocation: The Publishing History of Sumarokov
s
Two Epistles
. 4. Slander, Polemic, Criticism: Trediakovskii
s
Letter from a Friend to a Friend
of 1750 and the Problem of Creating Russian Literary Criticism. 5. Sumarokov
s Russianized
Hamlet
: Texts and Contexts. 6. Sumarokov
s Drama
The Hermit
: On the Generic and Intellectual Sources of Russian Classicism. 7.
The First Russian Ballet
: Sumarokov
s
Sanctuary of Virtue
(1759) Defining a New Dance. 8. Was Sumarokov a Lockean Sensualist? On Locke
s Reception in Eighteenth-Century Russia. 9. Barkoviana and Russian Classicism. 10. The Illegal Staging of Sumarokov
s Sinav and Truvor in 1770 and the Problem of Authorial Status in Eighteenth-Century Russia. 11. Sumarokov and the Unified Poetry Book: His Triumphal Odes and Love Elegies Through the Prism of Tradition. 12. The Barbarians among Us, or Sumarokov
s Views on Orthography. Early Modern Russian Letters: Part Two: VISUALITY AND ORTHODOXY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN CULTURE. Preface.13. The Rapprochement between
Secular
and
Religious
in Mid to Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Culture. 14. The
Obviousness
of the Truth in Eighteenth-Century Russian Thought. 15. The Theological Context of Lomonosov
s
Evening
and
Morning Meditations on God
s Majesty
. 16. The Ode as Revelation: On the Orthodox Theological Context of Lomonosov
s Odes. 17. An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great
s Debate with Chappe d
Auteroche over Russian Culture. 18. The Polemic with Rousseau over Gender and Sociability in E. S. Urusoväs Polion (1774). 19. Virtue Must Advertise: Self Presentation in Dashkoväs Memoirs. 20. The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev
s Journey from Petersburg to Moscow. Sources