Chernyshevsky and the age of realism : a study in the semiotics of behavior
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書誌事項
Chernyshevsky and the age of realism : a study in the semiotics of behavior
Stanford University Press, 1988
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注記
Bibliography: p. [289]-297
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889) is a figure of monumental importance in Russian literature and culture. An influential journalist and literary critic, a theoretician of the aesthetic relations of art to reality, and a prominent political activist, Chernyshevsky is the author of What Is to Be Done? (1863), the novel that has had the greatest impact on human lives in the history of Russian literature. This book approaches culture from a semiotic perspective, seeing it as a language that organizes human behaviour. But the author takes a direction quite different from that of semiotic work: rather than solely emphasize how the code shapes individuals, she also explores how individuals can influence the cultural code. Through an examination of Chernyshevsky's life and works, the author traces the transformation of personal experience into literary structure, then, in reverse, the work's ensuing influence in structuring the experience and behaviour of others.
Exploring Chernyshevsky's role in the crucial cultural developments of the 1860s, the author discusses such issues as the disintegration of the Romantic tradition and the rise of realism, the emergence of the non-noble intelligentsia, the rise of positivism and atheism, and the women's liberation movement. She shows how Chernyshevsky achieved a unique integration of diverse traditions that stood as a compelling model for others in this time.<
目次
- Introduction: the individual and literature
- 1. Exposition
- 2. Recapitulation: marriage
- 3. The embodiment of the model: texts
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index.
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