Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature: Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others by Beyer, Thomas R., Jr.

The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination: Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820416977)

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Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature: Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others by Beyer, Thomas R., Jr.

The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination: Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others

$90.50
Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature: Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others by Beyer, Thomas R., Jr.

The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination: Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others

$90.50
Format: Hardcover
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Between 1821 and 1891, the Optina Pustyn Monastery of Konzel'sk, in Russia's Kaluga Government, was the site of an unprecedented - and as yet unequaled - period of religious and literary flowering. Optina Pustyn was a mecca for many of Russia's most prominent writers and thinkers. Distinguished visitors included Ivan Kireevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy. This study explains why Optina and its renowned elders held a special attraction to Russia's literary giants. It reveals how the elders' use of language was rooted in the iconic vision of Optina's fifteen-hundred-year-old tradition of contemplative monasticism. It is the first study to examine Optina's social gravity against the broad background of nineteenth-century institutions of Church and Intelligentsia.

Author: Thomas R. Jr. Beyer, Leonard J. Stanton
ISBN-10: 0820416975
ISBN-13: 9780820416977
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1995
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
By Thomas R. Jr. Beyer
By Thomas R. Jr. Beyer
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The Author: Leonard J. Stanton teaches Russian language, literature, and culture at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He earned his Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the University of Kansas. Dr. Stanton's areas of interest include Russian religious philosophy, Dostoevsky and the theory of language and word. His research and writing of this book were supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisiana State University Council on Research.

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