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READING RUSSIAN FORTUNES
PRINT CULTURE, GENDER AND DIVINATION IN RUSSIA FROM 1765 |
| By: |
Faith Wigzell, Catriona Kelly, Anthony Cross |
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| ISBN 10: |
052102479X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521024792 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature |
| Pages: |
268 |
| Description: |
The first examination of the cultural impact of fortune-telling in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present. |
| Synopsis: |
Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society. Chapters are devoted to professional fortune-tellers and their clients, and to the publishers of the books. An analysis of the relationship between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture, where divination played a very significant role, leads on to a discussion of the underlying reasons for the persistence of fortune-telling in modern Russian society. |
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7 b/w illus. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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