D. S. Likhachev

The Poetics of Early Russian Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Arden-Close, Christopher M. / Übersetzer: Arden-Close, Christopher M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This translation of Likhachev's Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), provides a description of the basic themes of early (tenth to seventeenth century) Russian literature. Likhachev compares literary narrative with narrative used in the representational arts. Furthermore, Likhachev stresses the genre-based character of medieval Russian literature and shows how choice of style in medieval times depended on a genre with its own specific etiquette and how innovation was discouraged. The text contrasts medieval abstraction and modern realism, as Likhachev shows how realisticness gradually breaks through in specific situations-such as those of princely crimes. Likhachev draws contrasts in three different areas: the basic stock of symbols and comparisons used in early Russian literature with those used in modern literature, artistic time in folklore and early Russian literature, and artistic space in folklore and early Russian literature. Likhachev traces the gradual development into modern artistic time through a comparison of the chronicle, the first Russian play, the seventeenth century writer Avvakum, and three modern authors, Goncharov, Dostoevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin. Finally, the text gives a justification for studying early literatures. This book will be invaluable for students of Russian, medieval and comparative literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739186435
• Artikelnr.: 41141385

Autorenporträt

Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev was professor at Leningrad State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the English Translation
Milena Rozhdestvenkaya
Introduction to the Original Text. The Boundaries of Early Russian
Literature
Chapter 1. The Poetics of Literature as a System of the Whole
Chapter 2. The Poetics of Artistic Generalization
Chapter 3. The Poetics of Literary Methods
Chapter 4. The Poetics of Artistic Time
Chapter 5. The Poetics of Artistic Space
Instead of a conclusion. Why Study the Poetics of Early Russian Literature?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the translator