How Russia Learned to Write by Irina Reyfman

How Russia Learned to Write by Irina Reyfman

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Illuminates the surprisingly diverse effects of the Table of Ranks on writers, their work, and literary culture in Russia. From Sumarokov and Derzhavin in the eighteenth century through Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and poets serving in the military in the nineteenth, state service affected the self-images of writers and the themes of their creative output.

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How Russia Learned to Write by Irina Reyfman

Illuminates the surprisingly diverse effects of the Table of Ranks on writers, their work, and literary culture in Russia. From Sumarokov and Derzhavin in the eighteenth century through Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and poets serving in the military in the nineteenth, state service affected the self-images of writers and the themes of their creative output.
“Demonstrat[es] that much of what we know about Russian writers' relationships to state service is interpretation, and Reyfman provides thought-provoking alternative readings”—Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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ISBN 13 9780299308308
ISBN 10 0299308308
Title How Russia Learned to Write
Author Irina Reyfman
Series Publications Of The Wisconsin Center For Pushkin Studies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Year published 2016-08-23
Number of pages 224
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