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- In the eighteenth century, Russia created a new vernacular Russian literary language, the primary vehicle for Russia’s modernization and entry into the Western European cultural sphere that also made possible her extraordinary literary outpouring of creativity in the following century.
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Through their debates regarding versification of the Russian language and tone of Russian literature, the writers in the first half of the 18th century were able to lay foundation for the more poignant, topical work of the late 18th century.
Apr 19, 2018 · The History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. Five chronological parts by design unfold in diachronic histories; they can be read individually but are ...
First- and second-generation nineteenth-century Russian literary histories—and they were many—had agendas. From the 1850s, Russian literary history as a genre became de facto a form of national narrative open to politicization from both the radical left and the conservative right.
Some Russian statesmen of the first half of the eighteenth century read English literature in the original. Still, the general number of such readers, compared with the Russian reading public as a whole (though this was limited at the time), was rather small. Therefore, as I have said, it is necessary to retrace the eighteenth-century history ...
An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information.
The study of eighteenth-century Russian literature is, to a great extent, the study of a rapidly accelerated process of assimilation of Western ideas and literary fashions.
Mar 28, 2008 · Summary. Although those who came first chronologically in the history of eighteenth-century Russian literature – Antiokh Kantemir and Vasily Trediakovsky – initially wished to effect a radical break with their medieval tradition, much as Peter the Great had done in the political sphere, they could not manage it immediately.
