| Acts of Logos in Pushkin and Gogol: Petersburg Texts and Subtexts Contributor(s): Scollins, Kathleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1618115820 ISBN-13: 9781618115829 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $103.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
| Dewey: 891.713 |
| LCCN: 2017005317 |
| Series: Liber Primus |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.41 lbs) 330 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Acts of Logos examines the 19th-century foundations of St. Petersburg's famous literary heritage, with a focus on the unifying principle of material animation. Ever since Pushkin's 1833 poem The Bronze Horseman, the city has provided a literary space in which inanimate things (noses, playing cards, overcoats) spring to life. Scollins's book addresses this issue of animacy by analyzing the powerful function of language in the city's literature, from its mythic origins--in which the tsar Peter appears as a God-like creator, calling his city forth from nothing--to the earliest texts of its literary tradition, when poets took up the pen to commit their own acts of verbal creation. Her interpretations shed new light on the canonical works of Pushkin and Gogol, exposing the performative and subversive possibilities of the poetic word in the Petersburg tradition, and revealing an emerging literary culture capable of challenging the official narratives of the state. |