Essays on Karamzin
Author : Joel L. Black
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 311088738X
Author : Joel L. Black
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 311088738X
Author : Николай Михайлович Карамзин
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Enlightenment
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Author : Joseph Laurence Black
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : J. Laurence Black
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1975-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1442633751
Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous correspondence and published writings a world view that recognized the weaknesses of the Russian Empire and at the same time foresaw the dangers of both radical change and rigid autocracy. Russian conservatism owes much to this man, even though he would have agreed with very few of those who came after him and were called conservative: he supported autocracy, but was committed to enlightenment; he abhorred constitutions. The fact that his writing had lasting significance has rarely been challenged, but the social and political nature of that contribution has never before been demonstrated. Previous studies of Karamzin have dealt with his literary career. This monograph focuses on the final third of his life, on his career at court (1816–26) and on the cultural heritage he left to the Russian Empire. As the historian of Russia most widely read by his and later generations, his historical interpretations mirrored and helped shape the image Russians had of themselves. Professor Black’s study of Karamzin is crucial to any examination of Russia’s enlightenment, conservatism, historical writing, and national self-consciousness.
Author : Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Karamzin
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Eighteenth century
ISBN : 9780729408110
Author : Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Karamzin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472030507
The single most important source on the history of Russian conservatism
Author : Katya Hokanson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442691816
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 ‘peripheral’ 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.
Author : Kelly Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 113678764X
The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134260776
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1135455783
In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.