Reading in Russia
Practices of Reading and Literary Communication, 1760-1930
“Reader, where are you?”, wondered, in the mid-1880s, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, one of the Russian writers that paid the most attention to the readership of his time. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s call did not go unanswered. Over the past two centuries, various disciplines – from the social sciences to psychology, literary criticism, semiotics, historiography and bibliography – alternately tried to outline the specific features of the Russian reader and investigate his function in the history of Russ...
Éditeur : Ledizioni
Lieu d’édition : Milano
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 12 août 2016
ISBN numérique : 978-88-6705-357-5
DOI : 10.4000/books.ledizioni.260
Collection : Di/Segni | 9
Année d’édition : 2014
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-88-6705-247-9
Nombre de pages : 283
Damiano Rebecchini et Raffaella Vassena
“Reader, Where Are You?” An IntroductionЛаура Росси
Книги и чтение в автобиографических повествованиях о детстве русских писателей XVIII–XIX вв.: опыт прочтенияDamiano Rebecchini
Reading with Maps, Prints and Commonplace Books, or How the Poet V. A. Zhukovsky Taught Alexander II to Read Russia (1825-1838)Anne Lounsbery
How not to read: Belinsky on Literary ProvincialismEdyta M. Bojanowska
Writing the Russian Reader into the Text: Gogol, Turgenev, and their AudiencesRobin Feuer Miller
Dostoevsky’s Poor People: Reading as if for LifeРаффаэлла Вассена
Публичные литературные чтения эпохи великих реформ как пример коммуникативной (не)удачиWilliam Mills Todd III
V.N. Golitsyn Reads Anna Karenina: How One of Karenin’s Colleagues Responded to the NovelJeffrey Brooks
The Young Chekhov: Reader and Writer of Popular Realism“Reader, where are you?”, wondered, in the mid-1880s, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, one of the Russian writers that paid the most attention to the readership of his time. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s call did not go unanswered. Over the past two centuries, various disciplines – from the social sciences to psychology, literary criticism, semiotics, historiography and bibliography – alternately tried to outline the specific features of the Russian reader and investigate his function in the history of Russian literary civilization. The essays collected in this volume follow in the tradition but, at the same time, present new challenges to the development of the discipline. The contributors, coming from various countries and different cultures (Russia, the US, Italy, France, Britain), discuss the subject of reading in Russia – from the age of Catherine II to the Soviet regime – from various perspectives: from aesthetics to reception, from the analysis of individual or collective practices, to the exploration of the social function of reading, to the spread and evolution of editorial formats. The contributions in this volume return a rich and articulated portrait of a culture made of great readers.
Damiano Rebecchini (dir.)
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Milan. He has been working for some years on the history of reading in nineteenth-century Russia. In particular, he has studied the literary canon and reading practices in different social environments, from the court of the tsars to the lower classes. He has published papers on how they read at the court of Tsar Nicholas I and on the reception of nineteenth-century authors like Gogol and Tolstoy in the peasant world. In recent years, his research has been focusing on the education of Tsar Alexander II. His favourite readings are: H. Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener; F. Dostoevsky, The Idiot; C.E. Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana.
Raffaella Vassena (dir.)
Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Milan. Her research activity focuses on sociological aspects of the nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, and on the post-revolutionary Russian diaspora. She is the author of Reawakening National Identity. Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer and its Impact on Russian Society (Peter Lang, 2007). Her most recent publications include articles on Russian culture of the 1860s and 1870s, as well as on the twentieth-century Russian diaspora to Italy. Her three favourite readings are F.M. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, D. Buzzati’s Short Stories, and V. Nabokov’s Lolita.

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