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1.2 - The Baroque Age

from History 1 - Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2024

By
Simon Franklin
Edited by
Simon Franklin ,
Rebecca Reich  and
Emma Widdis
Simon Franklin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Rebecca Reich
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma Widdis
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

The chronology of the Baroque age in Russian culture is contested, but by the broadest definition it can be located in the second half of the seventeenth century and approximately the first third of the eighteenth century. The emergence of the Baroque tends to coincide with the emergence of the court as a focus and patron. General features include a greater prominence of individuality (even originality), a greater emphasis on entertainment as one function and purpose of literary production, and a highlighting of performative verbal and formal devices. This chapter explores two types of literary production that particularly exemplify aspects of the Baroque mode: parody and satire, and syllabic verse. As a case-study in the latter, the chapter introduces a cycle of poems by the most prominent and prolific Baroque versifier, and arguably Moscow’s first professional writer of literature, Simeon Polotskii.

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BaroquesatireRussian verseseventeenth-century literatureSimeon Polotskii
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The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature , pp. 34 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Brown, William Edward, A History of Seventeenth-Century Russian Literature (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1980).Google Scholar
Drage, Charles, Russian Word-Play Poetry from Simeon Polotskii to Derzhavin (London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 1993).Google Scholar
Hippisley, Anthony, The Poetic Style of Simeon Polotsky (Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1985).Google Scholar
Lachmann, Renate (ed.), Slavische Barockliteratur II (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1983).Google Scholar
Morris, Marcia, The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000).Google Scholar
Panchenko, A. M., Russkaia stikhotvornaia kul'tura XVII veka [Russian verse culture of the seventeenth century] (Leningrad: Nauka, 1973).Google Scholar
Sazonova, L. I., Literaturnaia kul'tura Rossii. Ranee Novoe vremia [Russian literary culture. The early modern period] (Moscow: Iazyki slavianskikh kul'tur, 2006).Google Scholar

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