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Marcus C. Levitt - The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-century Russia - 9780875804422 - V9780875804422
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The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-century Russia

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Description for The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-century Russia Hardcover. Num Pages: 357 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 795.

The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity.

Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the ... Read more

Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875804422
SKU
V9780875804422
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99-1

About Marcus C. Levitt
Marcus C. Levitt is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California and the author of Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880.

Reviews for The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-century Russia
[A] groundbreaking new book
Slavonic and East European Review
Levitt puts forth a fascinating and highly original thesis concerning the centrality of visual motifs in Russia's Enlightenment culture. I found the discussion of Orthodox theology and the ways it echoed in eighteenth-century literature to be innovative, intellectually stimulating, and persuasive.
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, California State Polytechnic University ... Read more

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