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Russian literature: Russian literature, the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in the late 10th century. The unusual shape of Russian literary history has been the source of numerous controversies.
Russian literature in general was hampered by the autocratic regime of the czars and by political and religious turmoil, although these conditions generated the few …
For example, O.Y. Ivanova analyzes the development in Russian literature of the character of “Sasha-Sashka” (from M.Y. Lermontova to Z. Prilepin): “The character of the “hero of our time” is one of the main archetypes of literature of every country and epoch, beginning with …
While scholars of other literatures have been recovering women’s contributions since the women’s movement of the 1970s, in Russian literature we have only recently begun the process.
Conventional imagery and allusions drawn from the Bible are as characteristic of later Russian literature as they are of other literatures, and biblical motifs regularly occurred in the works of Russian authors of the 19 th century. Such was the case with the magnificent statement of the poet’s mission in "Prorok" ("The Prophet," 1826) by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837).
Old Russian literature consists of several masterpieces written in the Old Russian language (i.e. the language of Rus’, not to be confused with the contemporaneous Church Slavonic nor with modern Russian). The main type of Old Russian historical literature were chronicles, most of them anonymous.
Classics of Russian Literature explores Russian masterpieces at all levels—characters, plots, scenes, and sometimes even single sentences, including: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina , which has one of the most famous first sentences in all of literature, setting the stage for a novel that probes the tragic dimension of a subject—adultery—that had
LAWRENCE — Historians agree that the failure of Tsar Alexander II’s Great Reforms of 1861-1874 put into motion events that set the stage for the Russian Revolution years later. Now a new book attempts to quantify the effect of this national, political and social disappointment on Russian literature.
‘Grotesque Realism’ in Russian literature reflected social turmoil Tuesday, February 06, 2018 LAWRENCE — Historians agree that the failure of Tsar Alexander II’s Great Reforms of 1861-1874 put into motion events that set the stage for the Russian Revolution years later.
