Hagiography and Modern Russian Literature / / Margaret Ziolkowski.

The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have treated examples of the influence of hagiographic writing on a few prominent Russian writers, Margaret...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 902
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES
  • ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
  • CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO: Hagiography and History: The Saintly Prince in the Poetry of the Decembrists
  • CHAPTER THREE: Hagiography Revised: Adaptations of Legends and Tales
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Neo-Hagiography: The Saintly Monk and the Holy Fool in Modern Dress
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Hagiography and the Rigorous Hero: The Josephite Type in Later Russian Literature
  • CHAPTER Six: Anti-Hagiography: Tolstoy's Assault on Orthodoxy
  • CONCLUSION