The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-71690-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of production, in social structures, in fashion and taste. The graphospheric environment can be public or private, monumental or ephemeral. This book explores a new approach to the study of writing, with a focus on Russia during its 'long early modernity' from the late fifteenth century to the early nineteenth century. Taking an inclusive approach, it charts unmapped territory, uncovers sources that have almost entirely escaped attention and therefore provides, in the first instance, a unique reference guide to cultures of writing in Russia over four hundred years. Besides generating fresh insights into distinctive features of Russian culture, this outward-looking and accessible book offers a pioneering case study for the wider comparative exploration of the significance of technologies of the word.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franklin, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Concepts and contexts; 2. Production in the graphosphere, I: primary writing; 3. Production in the graphosphere, II: secondary writing; 4. Scripts and languages of the graphosphere; 5. Places and times of the graphosphere; 6. Aspects of the ecology of the graphosphere; 7. Aspects of authority and status in the graphosphere; 8. (In)conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Franklin, Simon
Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300 (Cambridge, 2002), and has edited, with Emma Widdis, National Identity in Russian Culture (Cambridge, 2004); and, with Katherine Bowers, Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600–1854 (2017).