Harsha Ram
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harsha Ram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harsha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ram |
| SIGNATURE | RAM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introducing Georgian Modernism
Introducing Georgian Modernism Harsha Ram (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. Mikhailovsky (Voronstov) Bridge, Tbilisi, Georgia. Photograph by Dmitrii Ermakov. State Archives of Georgia / Wikimedia Commons. Situated south of the Caucasus mountain range on the eastern shores of the Black Sea, Georgia boasts a written literary tradition that goes back to the 5th century C.E. Written in the indigenous Georgian language which bear…
Decadent Nationalism, “Peripheral” Modernism: The Georgian Literary Manifesto between Symbolism and the Avant-garde
Decadent Nationalism, "Peripheral" Modernism:The Georgian Literary Manifesto between Symbolism and the Avant-garde Harsha Ram (bio) Georgia and the Time-Space of "Peripheral" Modernism Georgia's first modernist literary collective, the symbolist Blue Horn (Tsisperqants'elebi) group, was formally launched only in 1915. Largely overshadowed by the history of Russian modernism and only unevenly studied even within the former Soviet Union, Georgian m…
A Feast for Thought
Harsha Ram begins responding to his colleagues by addressing Harriet Murav’s concerns with the Rabelaisian carnival experience and hence temporary nature of the supra ’s power discourse, using it to reiterate his point about the facile binarism of repression and resistance. Ram comments on his colleagues’ interpretations of the multivalence of the supra (the mode of acculturation and civilizing; the imposition of form and hence a set of rules ont…
Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909–1914
Futurism is widely acknowledged as the earliest of the avant-garde literary movements to have swept through parts of Europe and Eurasia in the second decade of the twentieth century. Eliding social struggle into a generalized celebration of war, Italian Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and his comrades left no doubt that theirs was a program of national renewal, a battle against the academy, the university, and the museum, perceived as cultural equivale…
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
Masks of the Poet, Myths of the People: The Performance of Individuality and Nationhood in Georgian and Russian Modernism
Georgian and Russian modernisms engaged in a conversation that was by no means one-way and in which the chronological development and aesthetic premises of Russian symbolism became curiously inverted. Piecing together this forgotten dialogue allows us to recover a neglected crosscultural and properly Eurasian dimension of the Silver Age. Russians and Georgians alike invoked the mask as a theatrical form and myth as a narrative structure to articu…
The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire
The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840 - the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poe…
Modernism on the Periphery: Literary Life in Postrevolutionary Tbilisi
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures 6303 Dwinelle Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2979 USA [email protected]
Romantic Topography and the Dilemma of Empire: The Caucasus in the Dialogue of Georgian and Russian Poetry
Imagining Eurasia: The Poetics and Ideology of Olzhas Suleimenov's AZ i IA
The article examines the controversial book AZ i IA (1975) by the Russian-language Kazakh writer Olzhas Suleimenov. Ostensibly a study of the Russian medieval classic The Song of Igor's Campaign , the book was quickly understood to be a pointed commentary on the history of Russo-Turkic relations and a vindication of the Central Asian nomads, who were seen as oppressed by imperial domination in the field of knowledge no less than in politics. Whil…
Imagining Eurasia: The Poetics and Ideology of Olzhas Suleimenov's AZ i IA
The article examines the controversial book AZ i IA (1975) by the Russian-language Kazakh writer Olzhas Suleimenov. Ostensibly a study of the Russian medieval classic The Song of Igor's Campaign , the book was quickly understood to be a pointed commentary on the history of Russo-Turkic relations and a vindication of the Central Asian nomads, who were seen as oppressed by imperial domination in the field of knowledge no less than in politics. Whil…
Romantic Topography and the Dilemma of Empire: The Caucasus in the Dialogue of Georgian and Russian Poetry
Modernism on the Periphery: Literary Life in Postrevolutionary Tbilisi
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures 6303 Dwinelle Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2979 USA [email protected]
Decadent Nationalism, “Peripheral” Modernism: The Georgian Literary Manifesto between Symbolism and the Avant-garde
Decadent Nationalism, "Peripheral" Modernism:The Georgian Literary Manifesto between Symbolism and the Avant-garde Harsha Ram (bio) Georgia and the Time-Space of "Peripheral" Modernism Georgia's first modernist literary collective, the symbolist Blue Horn (Tsisperqants'elebi) group, was formally launched only in 1915. Largely overshadowed by the history of Russian modernism and only unevenly studied even within the former Soviet Union, Georgian m…
A Feast for Thought
Harsha Ram begins responding to his colleagues by addressing Harriet Murav’s concerns with the Rabelaisian carnival experience and hence temporary nature of the supra ’s power discourse, using it to reiterate his point about the facile binarism of repression and resistance. Ram comments on his colleagues’ interpretations of the multivalence of the supra (the mode of acculturation and civilizing; the imposition of form and hence a set of rules ont…
Imagining Eurasia: The Poetics and Ideology of Olzhas Suleimenov's AZ i IA
The article examines the controversial book AZ i IA (1975) by the Russian-language Kazakh writer Olzhas Suleimenov. Ostensibly a study of the Russian medieval classic The Song of Igor's Campaign , the book was quickly understood to be a pointed commentary on the history of Russo-Turkic relations and a vindication of the Central Asian nomads, who were seen as oppressed by imperial domination in the field of knowledge no less than in politics. Whil…
Modernism on the Periphery: Literary Life in Postrevolutionary Tbilisi
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures 6303 Dwinelle Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2979 USA [email protected]
Romantic Topography and the Dilemma of Empire: The Caucasus in the Dialogue of Georgian and Russian Poetry
The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire
The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840 - the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poe…
Masks of the Poet, Myths of the People: The Performance of Individuality and Nationhood in Georgian and Russian Modernism
Georgian and Russian modernisms engaged in a conversation that was by no means one-way and in which the chronological development and aesthetic premises of Russian symbolism became curiously inverted. Piecing together this forgotten dialogue allows us to recover a neglected crosscultural and properly Eurasian dimension of the Silver Age. Russians and Georgians alike invoked the mask as a theatrical form and myth as a narrative structure to articu…
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909–1914
Futurism is widely acknowledged as the earliest of the avant-garde literary movements to have swept through parts of Europe and Eurasia in the second decade of the twentieth century. Eliding social struggle into a generalized celebration of war, Italian Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and his comrades left no doubt that theirs was a program of national renewal, a battle against the academy, the university, and the museum, perceived as cultural equivale…
Introducing Georgian Modernism
Introducing Georgian Modernism Harsha Ram (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. Mikhailovsky (Voronstov) Bridge, Tbilisi, Georgia. Photograph by Dmitrii Ermakov. State Archives of Georgia / Wikimedia Commons. Situated south of the Caucasus mountain range on the eastern shores of the Black Sea, Georgia boasts a written literary tradition that goes back to the 5th century C.E. Written in the indigenous Georgian language which bear…
Decadent Nationalism, “Peripheral” Modernism: The Georgian Literary Manifesto between Symbolism and the Avant-garde
Decadent Nationalism, "Peripheral" Modernism:The Georgian Literary Manifesto between Symbolism and the Avant-garde Harsha Ram (bio) Georgia and the Time-Space of "Peripheral" Modernism Georgia's first modernist literary collective, the symbolist Blue Horn (Tsisperqants'elebi) group, was formally launched only in 1915. Largely overshadowed by the history of Russian modernism and only unevenly studied even within the former Soviet Union, Georgian m…
A Feast for Thought
Harsha Ram begins responding to his colleagues by addressing Harriet Murav’s concerns with the Rabelaisian carnival experience and hence temporary nature of the supra ’s power discourse, using it to reiterate his point about the facile binarism of repression and resistance. Ram comments on his colleagues’ interpretations of the multivalence of the supra (the mode of acculturation and civilizing; the imposition of form and hence a set of rules ont…
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