Authenticity and fiction in the Russian literary journey, 1790-1840
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Bibliographic Information
Authenticity and fiction in the Russian literary journey, 1790-1840
(Russian Research Center studies, 92)
Harvard University Press, 2000
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Based on the author's thesis--Harvard University
Bibliography: p. 273-289
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This comprehensive study of the Russian literary travelogue, a genre that blossomed in the early nineteenth century, sheds new light on Russian literature and culture of the period.
In the decades before and during the rise of the Russian novel, a new form of prose writing took hold in Russia: travel accounts, often fictional, marked by a fully developed narrator's voice, interpretive impressions, scenic descriptions, and extended narrative. Prompted in part by the growth of leisure travel and in part by publication of Western European examples of travel writing, the genre attracted the talents of numerous writers, including Radishchev, Karamzin, and Pushkin. In illuminating analyses of major texts as well as lesser known but influential works, Andreas Schoenle surveys the literary travelogue from its emergence in Russia to the end of the Romantic era. His study offers new insight on the construction of the authorial persona and on the emergence of fiction in a culture that valued nonfiction writing.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Daring to Travel and the Search for the Better 1. Fashion and Genre: The Two Instigators Radishchev's Journey and the Taste of Necessity Karamzin's Journey and the Taste of Fiction Words of Nature and the Nature of Words 2. Ritual and Histrionics: Sentimental Views of Authenticity On the Use and Abuse of Theatricality The Travelogue as Ritual of Social Integration (Prince P. I. Shalikov) The Travelogue as Ritual of Spiritual Elevation (V. A. Zhukovskii) 3. Creating History: Presences and Absences History Made Present (V. V. Izmailov) The Paradox of the Naive (K. N. Batiushkov) The Presence of the History Writer (A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinskii) The Paradox of the Sentimental (I. M. Murav'ev-Apostol) 4. The Space of Irony Irony, Fragmentation, and the Tower of Babel (A. F. Vel'tman) Baron Brambeus and the Ironies of Vulgar Traveling (O. I. Senkovskii) Ironic Masks and the Struggle for the Self (A. S. Pushkin) Conclusion: The Encumbered Gaze Notes Bibliography Index
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