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 ...
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- Publisher : Ledizioni
- Series : Di/Segni | 9
- Place of publication : Milano
- Year of publication : 2014
- Published on OpenEdition Books : 12 août 2016
- EAN (Print version) : 9788867052479
- Electronic EAN : 9788867053575
- DOI : 10.4000/books.ledizioni.260
- Number of pages : 283 p.
- Contents
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- About the author
Normative Criticism and Novel Reading in mid-18th Century Russia
Books and Reading in the Autobiographical Prose of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Russian Writers: a Tentative Analysis
Handwritten Literature in Nineteenth-Century Russia: its Social-Cultural Functions and Readership
Public Literary Readings in the Era of the Great Reforms as an Example of (Un)successful Communication
Notes on the Dialogue with the Readers in the Russian Magazines of the 1900s-1910s
Russian Literature between Readers and Writers: from Socialist Realism to Sots-Art
“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.
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.
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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