Susan Layton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Layton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Layton |
| SIGNATURE | LAYTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre d’études des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Jeffrey BROOKS, The Firebird and the Fox. Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks
This magisterial study constitutes a century of extraordinary Russian cultural brilliance in synergy with momentous socio-political and economic processes. Brooks brings all this together through judicious use of the metaphor of a dynamic “ecosystem” that eventually incorporated a wide social spectrum of creators and audiences in increasingly commercialized milieux. The cultural ecosystem drew deeply upon Russian traditions as well as immediate e…
Contested Russian Tourism
Public Tolstoj, Private Tolstoj
Tolstoj entre image publique et vie privée Préoccupations biographiques en Angleterre, 1910-1930 En Angleterre, Tolstoj, de son vivant, avait soulevé des polémiques aussi bien autour de son personnage public (l’anarchiste chrétien) qu’autour de sa vie privée (surtout en tant que mari). Sa disparition donna lieu également à des oppositions tranchées. Parmi les Anglais, le prétendant principal au rôle de porteur de flambeau fut Aylmer Maude, mais i…
The Divisive Modern Russian Tourist Abroad
Taking methodological cues primarily from James Buzard's bookThe Beaten Track(1993), Susan Layton examines the socially divisive construction of the Russian tourist abroad in mainstream writings published in Russia between 1856 and 1863. It was during this early reform era that Russians first began publicly worrying aboutturistyandturizmas components of their national culture. The prism of divisiveness complicates a scholarly tendency to interpre…
A Hidden Polemic with Leo Tolstoy
Imagining a Chechen military aristocracy
The sudden incursion of Shamil's forces into Kakheti in July 1854 plunged the Russian state into a hostage crisis of major proportions. The ‘predators’ descended on Prince David Chavchavadze's coun
Colonial Mimicry and Disenchantment in Alexander Druzhinin's "A Russian Circassian" and Other Stories
Aleksandr Polezhaev and Remembrance of War in the Caucasus
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.-Shakespeare,Twelfth NightPaul Fussell'sThe Great War and Modern Memorywas a landmark in the study of literature's role in shaping a society's remembrance of war. Although Fussell's book is primarily devoted to famous British poets of World War I, he stimulates thinking about the general question of how any military conflict comes to exist in the minds of civilian readers. A fascinating aspect…
Russian Literature and Empire
Russian Literature and Empire
Russian Literature and Empire
Lermontov in combat with Biblioteka dlia chteniia
Susan Layton, Lermontov in combat with Bibliotéka dlia chteniia. Inspired by Bakhtin's analyses of double-voiced discourse, this article examines Lermontov's attacks on two pieces of low-brow orientalia published in Bibliotéka dlia chteniia in 1838 — Dmitrii Kropotkin's poem "Pal'ma" and the semi-anonymous prose tale "Beduinka." In the first case, Kropotkin was the target of a hidden polemic in Lermontov's "Tri pal'my," a verse which critics have…
Eros and Empire in Russian Literature about Georgia
In recent years a growing body of studies has analyzed the discursive practices used by Europeans to constitute the Asian, African and American Indian as the less civilized other. A most influential contribution has been Edward Said'sOrientalism.Although Said deals essentially with western responses to the Islamic east, his work contains many insights germane to nineteenth century Russian literature stimulated by tsarist expansion into the Caucas…
Primitive despot and noble savage
Imagining the Caucasian Hero
The Creation of an Imaginative Caucasian Geography
In a study of English letters from the seventeenth century into the romantic era, Marjorie Nicolson analyzed the rise and persistence of topoi of mountain poetry. Beginning in the 1720s, such celebrated poets as James Thomson proved able to create compelling verse about peaks that they knew only from their reading; and even after seeing stupendous rocky terrain themselves poets tended to produce works conditioned to some extent by previous litera…
The First Circle and Solzhenitsyn's Mistr Ust of Poetr Y
The search for the primitive in Russian literature
The Mind of the Tyrant
"Poetic Vision in Pasternak's "The Childhood of Luvers
The critique of technocracy in early Soviet literature
Zamjatin and Literary Modernism
Russian Literature and Empire
The Creation of an Imaginative Caucasian Geography
In a study of English letters from the seventeenth century into the romantic era, Marjorie Nicolson analyzed the rise and persistence of topoi of mountain poetry. Beginning in the 1720s, such celebrated poets as James Thomson proved able to create compelling verse about peaks that they knew only from their reading; and even after seeing stupendous rocky terrain themselves poets tended to produce works conditioned to some extent by previous litera…
Eros and Empire in Russian Literature about Georgia
In recent years a growing body of studies has analyzed the discursive practices used by Europeans to constitute the Asian, African and American Indian as the less civilized other. A most influential contribution has been Edward Said'sOrientalism.Although Said deals essentially with western responses to the Islamic east, his work contains many insights germane to nineteenth century Russian literature stimulated by tsarist expansion into the Caucas…
Primitive despot and noble savage
The Divisive Modern Russian Tourist Abroad
Taking methodological cues primarily from James Buzard's bookThe Beaten Track(1993), Susan Layton examines the socially divisive construction of the Russian tourist abroad in mainstream writings published in Russia between 1856 and 1863. It was during this early reform era that Russians first began publicly worrying aboutturistyandturizmas components of their national culture. The prism of divisiveness complicates a scholarly tendency to interpre…
Colonial Mimicry and Disenchantment in Alexander Druzhinin's "A Russian Circassian" and Other Stories
Aleksandr Polezhaev and Remembrance of War in the Caucasus
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.-Shakespeare,Twelfth NightPaul Fussell'sThe Great War and Modern Memorywas a landmark in the study of literature's role in shaping a society's remembrance of war. Although Fussell's book is primarily devoted to famous British poets of World War I, he stimulates thinking about the general question of how any military conflict comes to exist in the minds of civilian readers. A fascinating aspect…
Imagining the Caucasian Hero
The Mind of the Tyrant
Zamjatin and Literary Modernism
"Poetic Vision in Pasternak's "The Childhood of Luvers
The critique of technocracy in early Soviet literature
The search for the primitive in Russian literature
The Mind of the Tyrant
The First Circle and Solzhenitsyn's Mistr Ust of Poetr Y
Imagining the Caucasian Hero
The Creation of an Imaginative Caucasian Geography
In a study of English letters from the seventeenth century into the romantic era, Marjorie Nicolson analyzed the rise and persistence of topoi of mountain poetry. Beginning in the 1720s, such celebrated poets as James Thomson proved able to create compelling verse about peaks that they knew only from their reading; and even after seeing stupendous rocky terrain themselves poets tended to produce works conditioned to some extent by previous litera…
Primitive despot and noble savage
Eros and Empire in Russian Literature about Georgia
In recent years a growing body of studies has analyzed the discursive practices used by Europeans to constitute the Asian, African and American Indian as the less civilized other. A most influential contribution has been Edward Said'sOrientalism.Although Said deals essentially with western responses to the Islamic east, his work contains many insights germane to nineteenth century Russian literature stimulated by tsarist expansion into the Caucas…
Lermontov in combat with Biblioteka dlia chteniia
Susan Layton, Lermontov in combat with Bibliotéka dlia chteniia. Inspired by Bakhtin's analyses of double-voiced discourse, this article examines Lermontov's attacks on two pieces of low-brow orientalia published in Bibliotéka dlia chteniia in 1838 — Dmitrii Kropotkin's poem "Pal'ma" and the semi-anonymous prose tale "Beduinka." In the first case, Kropotkin was the target of a hidden polemic in Lermontov's "Tri pal'my," a verse which critics have…
Russian Literature and Empire
Russian Literature and Empire
Russian Literature and Empire
Aleksandr Polezhaev and Remembrance of War in the Caucasus
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.-Shakespeare,Twelfth NightPaul Fussell'sThe Great War and Modern Memorywas a landmark in the study of literature's role in shaping a society's remembrance of war. Although Fussell's book is primarily devoted to famous British poets of World War I, he stimulates thinking about the general question of how any military conflict comes to exist in the minds of civilian readers. A fascinating aspect…
Colonial Mimicry and Disenchantment in Alexander Druzhinin's "A Russian Circassian" and Other Stories
Imagining a Chechen military aristocracy
The sudden incursion of Shamil's forces into Kakheti in July 1854 plunged the Russian state into a hostage crisis of major proportions. The ‘predators’ descended on Prince David Chavchavadze's coun
A Hidden Polemic with Leo Tolstoy
The Divisive Modern Russian Tourist Abroad
Taking methodological cues primarily from James Buzard's bookThe Beaten Track(1993), Susan Layton examines the socially divisive construction of the Russian tourist abroad in mainstream writings published in Russia between 1856 and 1863. It was during this early reform era that Russians first began publicly worrying aboutturistyandturizmas components of their national culture. The prism of divisiveness complicates a scholarly tendency to interpre…
Public Tolstoj, Private Tolstoj
Tolstoj entre image publique et vie privée Préoccupations biographiques en Angleterre, 1910-1930 En Angleterre, Tolstoj, de son vivant, avait soulevé des polémiques aussi bien autour de son personnage public (l’anarchiste chrétien) qu’autour de sa vie privée (surtout en tant que mari). Sa disparition donna lieu également à des oppositions tranchées. Parmi les Anglais, le prétendant principal au rôle de porteur de flambeau fut Aylmer Maude, mais i…
Contested Russian Tourism
Jeffrey BROOKS, The Firebird and the Fox. Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks
This magisterial study constitutes a century of extraordinary Russian cultural brilliance in synergy with momentous socio-political and economic processes. Brooks brings all this together through judicious use of the metaphor of a dynamic “ecosystem” that eventually incorporated a wide social spectrum of creators and audiences in increasingly commercialized milieux. The cultural ecosystem drew deeply upon Russian traditions as well as immediate e…
Art (16 works) · History (13 works) · Literature (11 works) · Soviet and Russian History (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 works)