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A history of old Russian literature

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Author Vladimir Kuskov, who teaches at Moscow University, shows how Old Russian literature reflected changes in the life of society. His main premise is that from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries Russian literature focu- sed on the evolution of a centralised State, with emphasis on the epic form. The historicism that imbued that literature drew inspiration from heroic folk epics with man as its centrepiece. Highly popular in the Soviet Union, this book has come out in three printings.

Language: English

Pages: 355

Format: Hardcover

A history of old Russian literature

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Author Vladimir Kuskov, who teaches at Moscow University, shows how Old Russian literature reflected changes in the life of society. His main premise is that from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries Russian literature focu- sed on the evolution of a centralised State, with emphasis on the epic form. The historicism that imbued that literature drew inspiration from heroic folk epics with man as its centrepiece. Highly popular in the Soviet Union, this book has come out in three printings.

Language: English

Pages: 355

Format: Hardcover

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