Reading Russian fortunes : print culture, gender and divination in Russia from 1765

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Reading Russian fortunes : print culture, gender and divination in Russia from 1765

Faith Wigzell

(Cambridge studies in Russian literature)

Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-244) and index

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内容説明

Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society. Chapters are devoted to professional fortune-tellers and their clients, and to the publishers of the books. An analysis of the relationship between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture, where divination played a very significant role, leads on to a discussion of the underlying reasons for the persistence of fortune-telling in modern Russian society.

目次

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Dreambooks and other fortune-telling guides
  • 2. Divination in Russian traditional culture
  • 3. Readers and detractors
  • 4. Printers and publishers
  • 5. Women, men and domestic fortune-telling
  • 6. Fortune-tellers and their clientele
  • 7. Sages and prophets
  • 8. Disappearance and revival
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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