EARLY MODERN RUSSIAN LETTERS by Marcus C. Levitt ( 9781934843680 )

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EARLY MODERN RUSSIAN LETTERS
TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

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Marcus C. Levitt

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1934843687

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ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS

Pub. date:

5 October, 2009

Series:

Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History

Pages:

440

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Brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. This offers a series of original and provocative explorations of a vital but little studied period.

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Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores the career and works of Alexander Sumarokov, who played a formative role in literary life of his day. In the essays of the second part Levitt argues that the EnlightenmentaEURO (TM)s privileging of vision played an especially important role in eighteenth-century Russian self-image, and that its aEURO÷occularcentrismaEURO? was profoundly shaped by Orthodox religious views. Early Modern Russian Letters offers a series of original and provocative explorations of a vital but little studied period.

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