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The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia / Marcus C. Levitt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501757983
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.709/002 23
LOC classification:
  • PG3007 .L486 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Prolegomena -- 2 The Moment of the Muses -- 3 Bogovidenie -- 4 The Staging of the Self -- 5 Virtue Must Advertise -- 6 The Seen, the Unseen, and the Obvious -- 7 The Icon That Started a Riot -- The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev's Journey -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Summary: The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity.Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the special character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking work represents both a new reading of various central and lesser known texts and a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture.Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Prolegomena -- 2 The Moment of the Muses -- 3 Bogovidenie -- 4 The Staging of the Self -- 5 Virtue Must Advertise -- 6 The Seen, the Unseen, and the Obvious -- 7 The Icon That Started a Riot -- The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev's Journey -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity.Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the special character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking work represents both a new reading of various central and lesser known texts and a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture.Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment.

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In English.

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