Anonymous, Taras na Parnase [Taras on Mount Parnassus]

Aliaksandra Razor (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
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)

Dates

First circulation or publication c. 1851

Places

Belarus (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Burlesque

Resources

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Taras na Parnase

[Taras on Mount Parnassus] (1851; 1889) is a Belarusian burlesque poem listed as written in 1855 by Kanstantsin Veranitsyn and published first in 1889 in the newspaper M

inskii listok

and later as a separate book in Vitsebsk in 1896. The book was so popular that, from 1896 to 1910, it was reprinted six times. For generations of Belarusian writers and scholars,

Taras na Parnase

became the cornerstone text of the national literary tradition. This text can be of interest to a comparativist studying the formation of national literary canons, problems of minor literatures and languages, the development of the burlesque genre in Eastern Europe, the interaction between ethnographic studies and literature, the representation of peasants in nineteenth century Slavic literature, and…

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Citation: Razor, Aliaksandra. "Taras na Parnase". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35780, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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