Russian Literary Scholarship, 1830-1917

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Andy Byford (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

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Literature Topic
Movements, styles and periods (literature)

Dates

Date of occurrence 1830-1917

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Russia (Location)

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In the seventeenth century Russian treatises on language and literature had the forms of Grammar, Rhetoric and Poetics. The eighteenth century saw a further development of systematic classifications of poetic forms, mostly reworked from Classical and West-European models, with original elaborations of specifically Russian versification by V.K. Tred’iakovskii (1703-1769) and M.V. Lomonosov (1711-1765). In the early nineteenth century, normative “theory” continued to dominate academic discourse on literature – e.g. in courses by professors A.F. Merzliakov (1778-1830), Ia.V. Tolmachev (1779-1873) and I.S. Rizhskii (1758-1811).

The subsequent development of literary scholarship was more closely tied to Imperial Russia’s nation-building efforts. In the first half of the nineteenth

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Citation: Byford, Andy. "Russian Literary Scholarship, 1830-1917". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 August 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1582, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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