Russian Subjects: Empire, Nation, and the Culture of the Golden AgeMonika Greenleaf, Stephen Moeller-Sally Although Russia's major Golden Age writers have had numerous book-length studies devoted to them by distinguished American slavists, no Western collection of essays has examined in comprehensive yet rigorous fashion the many literary pathways by which Russians imagined and revised their modern identity as a people. In this collection of important new essays, poetic works by Derzhavin, Krylov, Batiushkov, Pushkin, Girboedov, Lermontov, and, in a novel interaction, Baratynsky and Russia's first woman poet, Pavlova, are resituated within the force fields of contradictory cultural pressures, as are the best-selling prose narratives of Narezhnyi, Karamzin, Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Viazemsky, Senkovsky, Gogol, and Pushkin. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Russian Poetry and the Imperial Sublime | 21 |
The Subject of Batiushkovs Poetry | 51 |
Krylov La Fontaine and Aesop | 81 |
Fielding Gogol and Bakhtins | 101 |
Imperialism in The Fountain | 123 |
Baratynsky and Pavlova | 151 |
Creation without Reproduction | 173 |
The Fall of Novgorod in Karamzins Fiction and History | 193 |
A Necessary Virtue | 211 |
Is Moscow Burning? Fire in Griboedovs Woe from Wit | 229 |
Bretteur and Apologist | 243 |
Slavic GiftGiving The Poet in History and Pushkins | 259 |
Arabesques Architecture and Printing | 277 |
Mikhail Lermontov and the Manufacturing | 297 |
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