By Fables Alone : Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth - Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia

Zorin, Andrei; Levitt, Marcus C. (TRN); Monnier, Nicole (TRN); Schlaffy, Daniel (TRN)

ISBN 10: 1618113461 / ISBN 13: 9781618113467

Verlag: Academic Studies Press, 2014

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20587108

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: By Fables Alone : Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth - Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1618113461
• ISBN-13: 9781618113467
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: As New

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Inhaltsangabe

A translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including "The People’s War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807" and "Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii’s Epistle ’To Emperor Alexander’ and Christian Universalism."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrei Zorin is a cultural and literary historian. Before taking a Chair of Russian at Oxford (2004), he was a Professor at the Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow and a Visiting Professor in many American universities, including Harvard (1999, 2003), Stanford (1995, 2000), NYU (2001), and the University of Michigan (1999). Zorin is a member of several leading academic magazine boards, including the Slavic Review (USA), Cahiers du Monde Russes (France), and the New Literary Review (NLO) (Russia). He has published more than 150 articles in Russian, English, French, German and Italian. He is also the editor of Lydia Ginzburg's Prokhodiashchie kharaktery (Moscow, 2011; with E. van Buskirk). By Fables Alone is a translation of his monograph, Kormia dvuglavogo orla..., published in Russian in 2001.|Marcus Levitt (PhD Columbia University) is a 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 (1989), Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts. Selected Essays (2009), and The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia (2011). Among his many translations from Russian are the works by Viktor Zhivov and Boris Uspenskij.