The imperial sublime : a Russian poetics of empire / Harsha Ram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ram, Harsha.

Series:

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Poetics--History--18th century.

Poetics.

History.

Poetics--History--19th century.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 307 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]

Summary:

The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the creation and evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840--a century during which poets defined the central questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology was more than a matter of justifying and celebrating Russia's greatness and power, and how it became enmeshed in an unexpectedly wide range of issues--from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and the ruling monarch.

Contents:

Sublime beginnings

The ode and the empress

Sublime dissent

Pushkin, Lermontov, and the elegiac sublime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and index.

ISBN:

0299181901

OCLC:

50866914