A History of Russian Literature

PART I. THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD Institutions and contexts: writing and authorship, 1100-1400 Holy Russia: landmarks in medieval literature Local narratives PART II. THE EARLY MODERN: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Paradise Lost: National narratives Cultural interface: printing, Humanist learning and Orthodox resistance in the second half of the seventeenth century Court theater Poets Prose PART III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Defining Classicism: the canons of taste Institutions of writing and authorship National narratives Poetics and subjectivities between Classicism and Romanticism Prose fiction PART IV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Institutions The Literary Field: from amateur societies to professional institutions and literary alliances Subjectivities Forms of Prose Literary identity and social structure of the Imperial period Types: Heroes and anti-heroes Heroines and emancipation Narratives of nation-building PART V. THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES Institutions The Poetics of Subjectivity The Poetics of Language Prose and Drama: negotiations with history Catastrophic narratives Intelligentsia narratives