Cultural Discontinuity and Reconstruction: 
the Byzanto-Slav heritage and the creation of a Russian national literature in the nineteenth century

edited by
Jostein Børtnes & Ingunn Lunde

editorial advisors
Ursula Phillips & Diane Oenning Thompson

Oslo: Solum forlag A/S
ISBN 82-560-1085-1

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Contents:

Foreword, 7

Vladimir Zakharov: Orthodoxy and Ethnopoetics of Russian Literature, 11
Ivan Esaulov: Sobornost' in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, 29
Victor Bychkov: The Aesthetic Aspect of Sophiology in Russian Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 46

Per-Arne Bodin: The Akathistos Hymn in Russia, 63
Tatiana Malchukova: Paraphrases of the Psalms in Russian Poetry of the 1820s, 80
Ingunn Lunde: Pushkin's "Mirskaia vlast'": Secular Power and Rhetorical Force, 107
Jostein Børtnes & Ingunn Lunde: Paraphrasi audacius vertere: Aleksei K. Tolstoi's Rendering of John of Damascus' Nekrosima Idiomela, 121

Malcolm V. Jones: The Death and Resurrection of Orthodoxy in the Works of Dostoevskii, 143
Robin Feuer Miller: Dostoevskii's Parables: Paradox and Plot, 168
Diane Oenning Thompson: Motifs of Compassion in Dostoevskii's Novels, 185
Sophie Ollivier: Dostoevskii's The Landlady and The Icon of the Mother of God, 202
Knut Andreas Grimstad: The Rhetoric of an Archpriest: Nikolai Leskov and the Orthodox Heritage, 217
Marianna Raneva-Ivanova: The Transfiguration of a Christian Motif in Chekhov's Short Story "Dreams", 237

Contributors, 247