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The Literature Of Eighteenth Century Russia An Anthology Of Russian Literatury Materials Of The Age Of Classicism And The Englghtenment From The Reign Of Peter The Great 1689 1725 To The Reign Of Alexander I 1801 1825 Edited And Translated And With An Introd And Notes By Harold B Segel
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Book Synopsis University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Subjects by : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Subjects written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Translator in the Text by : Rachel May
Download or read book The Translator in the Text written by Rachel May and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.
Book Synopsis Creating the Empress by : Vera Proskurina
Download or read book Creating the Empress written by Vera Proskurina and published by Ars Rossica. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, etc.), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine's reign (and some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images.
Book Synopsis Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter by : Peter J. Potichnyj
Download or read book Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter written by Peter J. Potichnyj and published by CIUS Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Orientalism by : David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Download or read book Russian Orientalism written by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. He argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated understanding of the East among its people.
Book Synopsis A History of Russian Thought by : William Leatherbarrow
Download or read book A History of Russian Thought written by William Leatherbarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the Golden Age of Russian thought in the mid-nineteenth century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history.
Book Synopsis The Princess & the Patriot by : Sue Ann Prince
Download or read book The Princess & the Patriot written by Sue Ann Prince and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentenary of 2006, highlight Dashkova as an accomplished Enlightenment woman. They explore how she, like Franklin, took up the challenge of living according to the newest ideals of her age. Nominated by Franklin in 1789 to become the first female member of the APS, she in turn made him the first Amer. member of the Russian Acad.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature by : Neil Cornwell
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.
Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Catherine the Great by : Catherine the Great
Download or read book The Memoirs of Catherine the Great written by Catherine the Great and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a prolific and gifted writer. Fluent in French, Russian, and German, Catherine published political theory, journalism, comedies, operas, and history, while writing thousands of letters as she corresponded with Voltaire and other public figures. The Memoirs of Catherine the Great provides an unparalleled window into eighteenth-century Russia and the mind of an absolute ruler. With insight, humor, and candor, Catherine presents her eyewitness account of history, from her whirlwind entry into the Russian court in 1744 at age fourteen as the intended bride of Empress Elizabeth I’s nephew, the eccentric drunkard and future Peter III, to her unhappy marriage; from her two children, several miscarriages, and her and Peter’s numerous affairs to the political maneuvering that enabled Catherine to seize the throne from him in 1762. Catherine’s eye for telling details makes for compelling reading as she describes the dramatic fall and rise of her political fortunes. This definitive new translation from the French is scrupulously faithful to her words and is the first for which translators have consulted original manuscripts written in Catherine’s own hand. It is an indispensable work for anyone interested in Catherine the Great, Russian history, or the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Last Descendant of Aeneas by : Marie Tanner
Download or read book The Last Descendant of Aeneas written by Marie Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the eve of the modern era, rulers of Western empires inspired hero worship by proclaiming their divine origins. In this fascinating original study, Marie Tanner presents the history of the emperor's mythic image and its continuing influence on Western political thought. She shows that these pretensions to divinity were based on the Trojan legend and the myth of Rome as developed in Vergil's Aeneid and that later Christian emperors expanded these claims by tracing their lineage not only to the pagan gods but also to the priest-kings of the Old Testament. Through this amalgam of heritages each successive Holy Roman emperor proclaimed that he was the last descendant of Aeneas, destined to yield the terrestrial rule of Rome to Christ and thereby inaugurate millennial peace. By examining a wide range of literary, artistic, and historical sources plus a corpus of new illustrations, Tanner discovers remarkable chains of evidence for this process, one that culminates with the Renaissance Hapsburgs who imbued the holiest symbols of the faith with dynastic meaning as they attempted to consolidate all priestly and secular powers in their grip. On these foundations Philip II of Spain, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the first monarch to rule the four known continents, created a new concept of absolute monarchy that shaped the principles of modern statecraft and determined the dominant form of government in Europe for the next two centuries.
Book Synopsis A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism by : Andrzej Walicki
Download or read book A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism written by Andrzej Walicki and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers virtually all the significant Russian thinkers from the age of Catherine the Great Down to the eve of the 1905 Revolution.
Book Synopsis Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg by : Charles François Philibert Masson
Download or read book Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg written by Charles François Philibert Masson and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Historical Geography of Russia by : William Henry Parker
Download or read book An Historical Geography of Russia written by William Henry Parker and published by Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company. This book was released on 1968 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Contest for the Legacy of Kievan Rus' by : Jaroslaw Pelenski
Download or read book The Contest for the Legacy of Kievan Rus' written by Jaroslaw Pelenski and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical study of the contest for the legacy of Kievan Rus. This contest was conducted by the various Slav states - Russia, the Ukraine and Poland - with the aim of establishing direct historical continuity to Kievan Rus in order to validate their claims to its legacy.
Book Synopsis The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture by : James Cracraft
Download or read book The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture written by James Cracraft and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture - a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture.
Book Synopsis Language and Culture in Eighteenth-century Russia by : V. M. Zhivov
Download or read book Language and Culture in Eighteenth-century Russia written by V. M. Zhivov and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhivov's magisterial work tells the story of the creation of a new vernacularliterary language in modern Russia, an achievement arguably on a par with thenation's extraordinary military successes, territorial expansion, developmentof the arts, and formation of a modern empire.
Book Synopsis The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine by : Horst Bredekamp
Download or read book The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine written by Horst Bredekamp and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bredekamp (art history, Humboldt U.) explains the sources of pictures of the Baroque era and offers insights on the relationships between art, science, and scholarship in early modern Europe, in this analysis of the Kunstkammer, displays of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to the 18th centuries. He combines analysis of images with interpretation of texts in a new account of the development of aesthetics and natural history of the period. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
