Pictures Of Russian History And Russian Literature
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Author | : John Givens |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2018-05-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1609092384 |
Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him, either by deploying faith explanations that no longer persuade in an age of skepticism or by reducing Christ to a mere argument in an ideological dispute. The writers at the heart of this study understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliché, doctrine, or naïve apologetics. The Christology of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak is thus apophatic because they deploy negative formulations (saying what God is not) in their writings about Jesus. Professions of atheism in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's non-divine Jesus are but separate negative paths toward truer discernment of Christ. This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apophaticism as a theological practice and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also emphasizes the importance of skepticism in Russian literary attitudes toward Jesus on the part of writers whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of the most provocative and enduring images of Christ in world literature. This important study will appeal to scholars and students of Orthodox Christianity and Russian literature, as well as educated general readers interested in religion and nineteenth-century Russian novels.
Author | : Prince Serge Wolkonsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783348125161 |
Author | : Kniaz Sergiei Volkonskii |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290319300 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : Prince Sergyei Mikhailovich Volkonsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sergi︠e︡ĭ Volkonskīĭ (kni︠a︡zʹ) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Russia |
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Author | : Serge Wolkonsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1977-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780849024429 |
Author | : Prince Serge Wolkonsky |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780332117874 |
Excerpt from Pictures of Russian History Russian Literature In the few hours at our disposal for the development of our programme, there can be no question of presenting a complete course of Russian history and literature. We will endeavour to hold an uninterrupted thread of events. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Prince Serge Wolkonsky |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781330080238 |
Excerpt from Pictures of Russian History Russian Literature We have before us a task capable of rendering us diffident in many respects. Within the short limits of a few lectures, I have to unroll before your eyes, and you - if only you agree to follow me - will have to run through the panoramic picture of the historical and literary development of a whole country; a country which extends from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific, from the sunny vineyards of the Crimea facing Asia Minor to the frozen swamps of the Behring coast facing Alaska, from the snow and ice of the Norwegian shores down to the burning sands of Central Asia and to the heights of the Pamirs; a country which in these limits represents a surface of 406,000 square miles, i.e. forty-two times as big as the surface of France, or, to borrow the astronomical comparison of Humboldt, - who thought he could not find the equivalent on earth, - a surface which is equal to the surface of the full moon; a country which takes the seventh part of the terrestrial globe, counts over 120,000,000 inhabitants, and over a thousand years of history. In the few hours at our disposal for the development of our programme, there can be no question of presenting a complete course of Russian history and literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Victor Terras |
Publisher | : New Haven : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300049718 |
Surveys Russian literature from the eleventh century to the present, set within the context of political, social, religious, and philisophical developments
Author | : Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195360613 |
The image of Peter the Great casts a long shadow in modern Russian thought and culture. As important to modern Russia as the French Revolution is to France and the Reformation is to Germany, the image of this militaristic ruler, founder of St Petersburg, and czar of all Russia from 1689-1725 has been central to Russian history, literature, and art since the early 1700s.; Riasanovsky, one of the foremost historians of Russia, traces the development of this image from 1700 to the present. Drawing examples from Russian historical accounts, literature, folklore, and the arts, he shows how the use of the image of Peter has reflected the changing cultural and political values of the Russian people.