Rank and Style
Russians in State Service, Life, and Literature
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2019
330 pages
978-1-61811-126-5 (ISBN)
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Irina Reyfman (Ph.D. 1986, Stanford University) is a professor of Russian Literature at Columbia University. In her studies, Reyfman focuses on the interaction of literature and culture: how literature reflects cultural phenomena and how it contributes to the formation of cultural biases and forms of behavior. Reyfman is the author of Vasilii Trediakovsky: The Fool of the `New' Russian Literature (Stanford, 1990) and Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature (Stanford, 1999; also in Russian, Moscow: NLO, 2002). She is also a co-editor (with Catherine T. Nepomnyashchy and Hilde Hoogenboom) of Mapping the Feminine: Russian Women and Cultural Difference (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2008).
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- P a r t O n e Rank, State Service , and Literature
- Preface
- 1. Writing, Ranks, and the Eighteenth-Century Russian Gentry Experience
- 2. What Makes a Gentleman? Revisiting Gogol's "Notes of a Madman"
- 3. Writing and the Anxiety of Rank: Pushkin's Prose Fiction
- 4. Pushkin the Kammerherr: On Pushkin's Social Reputation in the 1830s
- P a r t T w o Pushkin as the Other
- Preface
- 5. Poetic Justice and Injustice: Autobiographical Echoes in Pushkin's
- 6. Kammerjunker in "Notes of a Madman": Gogol's View of Pushkin
- 7. Death and Mutilation at the Dueling Site: Pushkin's Death as a National Spectacle
- 8. The Sixth Tale of Belkin: Mikhail Zoshchenko as Proteus
- P a r t T h r e e Tolstoy
- Preface
- 9. Turgenev's "Death" and Tolstoy's "Three Deaths"
- 10. Female Voice and Male Gaze in Leo Tolstoy's
- 11. Tolstoy and Gogol: "Notes of a Madman"
- 12. Tolstoy the Wanderer and the Quest for Adequate Expression
- P a r t F o u r Russians in Life and Literature
- Preface
- 13. Alexey Rzhevsky, Russian Mannerist
- 14. Imagery of Time and Eternity in Eighteenth-Century Russian Poetry: Mikhail Murav'ev and Semyon Bobrov
- 15. Dishonor by Flogging and Restoration by Dancing: Leskov's Response to Dostoevsky
- Sources
- Index
