The visual dominant in eighteenth-century Russia
By: Marcus C. Levitt
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780875804422
Subjects: Visual perception in literature; Vision in literature; History and criticism; Russian literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An archaeology of vision; title: Prolegomena: Making Russia visible; title: The moment of the muses: Lomonosov's odes; title: Bogovidenie: Orthodox vision and the odes; title: The staging of the self; title: Virtue must advertise: The ethics of vision; title: The seen, the unseen, and the obvious; title: The icon that started a riot; title: The dialectic of vision in Radishchev's journey; title: Conclusion: Russian culture as a mirage.