Rank and Style : Russians in state service, life and literature / selected essays by Irina Reyfman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reyfman, Irina.

Series:

Ars Rossica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russia--In literature.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 little studied writers and works, Rank and Style offers new approaches to well-studied literary personalities and texts.

Contents:

pt. 1. Rank, state service, and literature

pt. 2. Pushkin as the other

pt. 3. Tolstoy

pt. 4. Russians in life and literature.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61811-126-4

OCLC:

797832951