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Saints and Revolutionaries

The Ascetic Hero in Russian Fiction

By: Marcia A. Morris

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Saints and Revolutionaries

The Ascetic Hero in Russian Fiction

By: Marcia A. Morris

An examination of literary works spanning more than seven centuries, this volume studies the ascetic hero and asceticism, exploring the elusive interplay between religion, politics, and belles lettres in Russia. The first part places works including the thirteenth-century Kievan Crypt Patericon and Life of Avraamii Smolenskii, Epifaniis Life of Sergii Radonezhskii, and other lives written in the north of Russia, in the context of crucial religious doctrines such as apocalypticism and deification. The author shows how Old Russian literature plays a major cultural role in the continuing development of these doctrines on Russian soil. The second part traces a revival of the Russian fascination with themes of apocalypse and perfectibility to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morris also documents the development of a divergence in ideological approach between Russian writers who continued to view apocalypticism and deification as religious phenomena and those who used them as tools of social and political struggle. Works by Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Gorky, as well as classic novels of the socialist realist tradition are analyzed as evidence of the underlying unity of the literary manifestations of this ostensibly bifurcated intellectual tradition.

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Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia

By: Marcia A. Morris

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Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia

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Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia is a translation from the Russian of two stories of demonic possession, of innocence lost and regained. The original versions of both tales date back to the seventeenth century, but the feats of suffering and triumph described in them are timeless. Aleksei Remizov, one of Russia’s premiere modernists, recognized the relevance of the late-medieval material for his own mid-twentieth-century readers and rewrote both tales, publishing them in 1951 under the title The Demoniacs. The volumeoffers a new translation of the original Tale of Savva Grudtsyn as well as first-ever translations of The Tale of The Demoniac Solomonia and Remizov’s Demoniacs. Russian Tales of Demonic Possession opens with an introduction that interprets and contextualizes both the late-medieval and the twentieth-century tales. By providing new critical interpretations of all four tales as well as a short discussion of the history of demons in Russia, this introduction makes an eerily exotic world accessible to today’s English-speaking audiences. Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia, the protagonists of the two tales, are young people poised on the threshold of adulthood. When demons suddenly appear to confront and overmaster them, each of them teeters on the brink of despair in a world filled with chaos and temptation. The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn and The Tale of the Demoniac Solomonia propel us forcibly into the realm of good and evil and pose hard questions: Why does evil afflict us? How does it manifest itself? How can it be overcome? Aleksey Remizov’s modernist re-castings of the two stories offer compelling evidence that these same questions are very much with us today and are still in need of answers.

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Lexington Books

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0739188615

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The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

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The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

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This study of the flowering and the antecedents of the picaresque in 17th century Russia seeks to offer new insight into both the genre and its broad appeal to Russian readers. Morris resurrects 18th century picaresques, revealing their fusion of Western and indigenous aesthetics.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117533

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The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

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Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia

By: Marcia A. Morris

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Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia

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Writing the Time of Troubles

False Dmitry in Russian Literature

By: Marcia A. Morris

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False Dmitry in Russian Literature

By: Marcia A. Morris

Writing the Time of Troubles traces recurring fictional representations of the man who briefly reigned as Tsar Dmitry, showing how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.

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Saints and Revolutionaries

The Ascetic Hero in Russian Fiction

By: Marcia A. Morris

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The Ascetic Hero in Russian Fiction

By: Marcia A. Morris

An examination of literary works spanning more than seven centuries, this volume studies the ascetic hero and asceticism, exploring the elusive interplay between religion, politics, and belles lettres in Russia. The first part places works including the thirteenth-century Kievan Crypt Patericon and Life of Avraamii Smolenskii, Epifanii's Life of Sergii Radonezhskii, and other lives written in the north of Russia, in the context of crucial religious doctrines such as apocalypticism and deification. The author shows how Old Russian literature plays a major cultural role in the continuing development of these doctrines on Russian soil. The second part traces a revival of the Russian fascination with themes of apocalypse and perfectibility to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morris also documents the development of a divergence in ideological approach between Russian writers who continued to view apocalypticism and deification as religious phenomena and those who used them as tools of social and political struggle. Works by Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Gorky, as well as classic novels of the socialist realist tradition are analyzed as evidence of the underlying unity of the literary manifestations of this ostensibly bifurcated intellectual tradition.

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State University of New York Press

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1438413688

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Marcia Batiste Book IV

Dedicated to God

By: Marcia B. Wilson,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

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Dedicated to God

By: Marcia B. Wilson,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

The ritual at Karnak inwardly is for God service and living a wonderful and fulfilling life spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically and in motive.

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Marcia Batiste Book II

Dedicated to God

By: Marcia Batiste,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

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Dedicated to God

By: Marcia Batiste,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

Marcia Batiste lives the attunement to God, with God, in God.

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Saints and Revolutionaries

Saints and Revolutionaries

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

Writing the Time of Troubles

Writing the Time of Troubles

Saints and Revolutionaries

Saints and Revolutionaries

Marcia Batiste Book IV

Marcia Batiste Book IV

Marcia Batiste Book II

Marcia Batiste Book II

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