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Irina Reyfman - Rank and Style, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Rank and Style

Russians in State Service, Life, and Literature

Av Irina Reyfman

Del i serien Ars Rossica

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Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging in topic from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the essays focus on the interaction of life and literature. In the first part, Reyfman examines how obligatory state service and the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers’ view of themselves as professionals, raising questions about whether the existence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. The sections that follow bring together articles on Pushkin, writer and man, as seen by himself and others, essays on Leo Tolstoy, and other aspects of Russian literary and cultural history. In addition to examining littlestudied writers and works, Rank and Style offers new approaches to well-studied literary personalities and texts.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-02-16
  • Mått: 155 x 234 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 639 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Ars Rossica
  • Antal sidor: 330
  • Förlag: Academic Studies Press
  • ISBN: 9781936235513
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Irina Reyfman (Ph.D. 1986, Stanford University) is a professor of Russian Literature at Columbia University. In her studies, Reyfman focuses on the interaction of literature and culture: how literature reflects cultural phenomena and how it contributes to the formation of cultural biases and forms of behavior. Reyfman is the author of Vasilii Trediakovsky: The Fool of the `New’ Russian Literature (Stanford, 1990) and Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature (Stanford, 1999; also in Russian, Moscow: NLO, 2002). She is also a co-editor (with Catherine T. Nepomnyashchy and Hilde Hoogenboom) of Mapping the Feminine: Russian Women and Cultural Difference (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2008).

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"Irina Reyfman is that rare scholar who reads contexts as subtly and as insightfully as she reads texts. In this volume the range and depth are are exceptional, stretching from the early eighteenth century to the twentieth and from duels, to love, to flogging, to the bureaucracy, and to the eternal, in short, to what draws readers to the classic Russian texts she analyzes and contextualizes with such convincing originality. Anyone who reads or teaches Russian history and literature will find this book both engaging and illuminating."

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