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Kathleen Scollins - Acts of Logos in Pushkin and Gogol, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Acts of Logos in Pushkin and Gogol

Petersburg Texts and Subtexts

Av Kathleen Scollins

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Acts of Logos examines the 19th-century foundations of St. Petersburg’s famous literary heritage, with a focus on the unifying principle of material animation. Ever since Pushkin’s 1833 poem The Bronze Horseman, the city has provided a literary space in which inanimate things (noses, playing cards, overcoats) spring to life. Scollins’s book addresses this issue of animacy by analyzing the powerful function of language in the city’s literature, from its mythic origins—in which the tsar Peter appears as a God-like creator, calling his city forth from nothing—to the earliest texts of its literary tradition, when poets took up the pen to commit their own acts of verbal creation. Her interpretations shed new light on the canonical works of Pushkin and Gogol, exposing the performative and subversive possibilities of the poetic word in the Petersburg tradition, and revealing an emerging literary culture capable of challenging the official narratives of the state.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-08-17
  • Mått: 155 x 234 x 27 mm
  • Vikt: 639 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Liber Primus
  • Antal sidor: 330
  • Förlag: Academic Studies Press
  • ISBN: 9781618115829
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Kathleen Scollins is an assistant professor at the University of Vermont, where she teaches Russian language and literature in the Department of German and Russian.

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“Kathleen Scollins’ spirited, innovative engagement with the ‘Petersburg theme’ takes on highly canonical texts and yet says new and interesting things about them, providing among other things a sustained reading of Gogol’s complex Petersburg tales. She argues that Peter’s reforms divorced Russian representation from its typical Orthodox focus on the visual and aural, instead allying it to a Western focus on Logos, the word. This led literature to predominate in St. Petersburg, its might unleashing the representational power to shape the idea of the city itself, in the process giving rise to literary figures who themselves attempted to harness the power of the word.”

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