How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) - Softcover

Reyfman, Irina

 
9780299308346: How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299308340 ISBN 13: 9780299308346
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021

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In the eighteenth century, as modern forms of literature began to emerge in Russia, most of the writers producing it were members of the nobility. But their literary pursuits competed with strictly enforced obligations to imperial state service. Unique to Russia was the Table of Ranks, introduced by Emperor Peter the Great in 1722. Noblesse oblige was not just a lofty principle; aristocrats were expected to serve in the military, civil service, or the court, and their status among peers depended on advancement in ranks.
            Irina Reyfman illuminates the surprisingly diverse effects of the Table of Ranks on writers, their work, and literary culture in Russia. From Sumarokov and Derzhavin in the eighteenth century through Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and poets serving in the military in the nineteenth, state service affected the self-images of writers and the themes of their creative output. Reyfman also notes its effects on Russia&;s atypical course in the professionalization and social status of literary work.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Irina Reyfman is a professor of Russian literature at Columbia University. She is the author and editor of several books, including Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Rank and Style: Russians in State Service, Life, and Literature.

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299308340
ISBN 13 
9780299308346
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256
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