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Rank and Style : Russians in State Service, Life, and Literature / Irina Reyfman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ars RossicaPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781936235513
  • 9781618111265
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.709
LOC classification:
  • PG2949 History PG2950-2959 General works. History of Russian literature PG2950-2957 Western languages PG2950 .R49 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Note on Transliteration -- Part One. RANK, STATE SERVICE, AND LITERATURE -- Preface -- 1. Writing, Ranks, and the Eighteenth-Century Russian Gentry Experience -- 2. What Makes a Gentleman? Revisiting Gogol’s “Notes of a Madman” -- 3. Writing and the Anxiety of Rank: Pushkin’s Prose Fiction -- 4. Pushkin the Kammerherr: On Pushkin’s Social Reputation in the 1830s -- Part Two. PUSHKIN AS THE OTHER -- Preface -- 5. Poetic Justice and Injustice: Autobiographical Echoes in Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter -- 6. Kammerjunker in “Notes of a Madman”: Gogol’s View of Pushkin -- 7. Death and Mutilation at the Dueling Site: Pushkin’s Death as a National Spectacle -- 8. The Sixth Tale of Belkin: Mikhail Zoshchenko as Proteus -- Part Three. TOLSTOY -- Preface -- 9. Turgenev’s “Death” and Tolstoy’s “Three Deaths” -- 10. Female Voice and Male Gaze in Leo Tolstoy’s Family Happiness -- 11. Tolstoy and Gogol: “Notes of a Madman” -- 12. Tolstoy the Wanderer and the Quest for Adequate Expression -- Part Four. RUSSIANS IN LIFE AND LITERATURE -- Preface -- 13. Alexey Rzhevsky, Russian Mannerist -- 14. Imagery of Time and Eternity in Eighteenth-Century Russian Poetry: Mikhail Murav’ev and Semyon Bobrov -- 15. Dishonor by Flogging and Restoration by Dancing: Leskov’s Response to Dostoevsky -- Sources -- Index
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 littlestudied writers and works, Rank and Style offers new approaches to well-studied literary personalities and texts.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Note on Transliteration -- Part One. RANK, STATE SERVICE, AND LITERATURE -- Preface -- 1. Writing, Ranks, and the Eighteenth-Century Russian Gentry Experience -- 2. What Makes a Gentleman? Revisiting Gogol’s “Notes of a Madman” -- 3. Writing and the Anxiety of Rank: Pushkin’s Prose Fiction -- 4. Pushkin the Kammerherr: On Pushkin’s Social Reputation in the 1830s -- Part Two. PUSHKIN AS THE OTHER -- Preface -- 5. Poetic Justice and Injustice: Autobiographical Echoes in Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter -- 6. Kammerjunker in “Notes of a Madman”: Gogol’s View of Pushkin -- 7. Death and Mutilation at the Dueling Site: Pushkin’s Death as a National Spectacle -- 8. The Sixth Tale of Belkin: Mikhail Zoshchenko as Proteus -- Part Three. TOLSTOY -- Preface -- 9. Turgenev’s “Death” and Tolstoy’s “Three Deaths” -- 10. Female Voice and Male Gaze in Leo Tolstoy’s Family Happiness -- 11. Tolstoy and Gogol: “Notes of a Madman” -- 12. Tolstoy the Wanderer and the Quest for Adequate Expression -- Part Four. RUSSIANS IN LIFE AND LITERATURE -- Preface -- 13. Alexey Rzhevsky, Russian Mannerist -- 14. Imagery of Time and Eternity in Eighteenth-Century Russian Poetry: Mikhail Murav’ev and Semyon Bobrov -- 15. Dishonor by Flogging and Restoration by Dancing: Leskov’s Response to Dostoevsky -- Sources -- Index

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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.

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