The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Beschreibung

Neuware - The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understandingthe world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupationwith sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in RussianOrthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucialrole in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity.Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilantself-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The bookexamines verbal constructs of sight--in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir--that provide evidence for understanding thespecial character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking workrepresents both a new reading of various central and lesser known textsand a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture.Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature andthe visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modernperiod or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russiais an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interestto scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, andspecialists on the Enlightenment.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Verlag

Cornell University Press Okt 2011

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

087580442X

ISBN-13

9780875804422

Einband

Buch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

229B x 152 H x 32 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 152 mm, Tiefe: 32 mm

Gewicht

907 Gramm

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