Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia (1870s-1917)

Taylor & Francis

This book analyses a representative selection of discursive and ceremonial practices in which one finds the most evident articulation of common 'principles of vision and division' symbolically constructing the professional space of academic literary studies in late Imperial Russia. > This book analyses a representative selection of discursive and ceremonial practices in which one finds the most evident articulation of common 'principles of vision and division' symbolically constructing the professional space of academic literary studies in late Imperial Russia. > Introduction 1. Scholarship, Literature, and the Nation 2. A Self-Historicizing Academy 3. Lives of Scholars 4. Defining the Science of Literature 5. Conclusion