The Literature of Georgia
Subtitle: A History
By: Donald Rayfield.
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Series: Caucasus world
Publisher: Curzon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Georgian literature -- History and criticism
Other titles: Kʻartʻuli literaturis istoria
Notes: English and Georgian.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: THE MAKING OF THE CLASSICAL AGE; title: THE FIFTH TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURIES: ASCETICISM & BYZANTIUM; title: 1. Laying the foundation 19; title: 2. Lyrical poetry: hymnography 27; title: 3. Original prose: from homilies to hagiography 40; title: 4. The Lives of the Fathers: Serapion Zarzmeli, Grigol Khandzteli 50; title: 5. Chronicles: the 'Conversion' and 'Life' of Georgia 56; title: 6. The dawn of secular literature: Balahvar and lodasap 63; title: PART II; title: THE GOLDEN AGE, THE FALL & THE RESURRECTION; title: THE TWELFTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES: COURT & COURTLY LOVE; title: 7. Prose romance: Rustaveli's precursors 69; title: 8. Rustaveli and The Knight in the Panther Skin 76; title: 9. Religious literature of the Golden Age 87; title: 10. The later chronicles 91; title: 11. Rebuilding on a tabula rasa 96; title: 12. The authorial persona: King Teimuraz I 102; title: 13. Kings and enlightenment 10o7; title: 14. Three great poets: Guramishvili, Sayat-Nova and Besiki 15; title: 15. The last gasps of the eighteenth century 2z6; title: PART 111; title: ROMANTIC & CIVIC LITERATURE; title: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: RUSSIAN TUTELAGE; title: 16. Exiled royalty: the Bagration writers 131; title: 17. Romantic poets: Chavchavadze, the Orbelianis, Baratashvili 138; title: 18. The birth of modern prose and drama 150; title: 19. The luminaries: Ilia Chavchavadze and Akaki Tsereteli 159; title: 20. Lesser luminaries: populists and pedagogues 169; title: 21. Melodrama, revolt and commercial literature 175; title: PART IV; title: THE REDISCOVERY OF ROOTS; title: 1880-1914: VAZHA-PSHAVELA & HEROIC FOLK POETRY; title: 22. Vazha-Pshavela 187; title: 23. Folk poetry and its relevance to literature 196; title: PART V; title: THE AGE OF INTERNATIONALISM; title: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE DASHING OF HOPE; title: 24. Two theatres: the political arena and drama 211; title: 25. Narrative prose and Mikheil Javakhishvili zi6; title: 26. Dreaming poets: Grishashvili, Robakidze and the Blue Horns 227; title: 27. Mythmakers under Socialism: Shanshiashvili, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia 245; title: 28. The poetry of Galaktion Tabidze, Giorgi Leonidze and Simon Chikovani 251; title: 29. Beria's Holocaust 261; title: 30. Literature after the Great Terror 27I; title: 31. From thaw to deluge 279; title: Notes 293; title: Bibliography 303; title: Index 311.