Irina Reyfman

Biographic Data

ID958479
NAMEIrina Reyfman
GIVEN NAMESIrina
FAMILY NAMEReyfman
SIGNATUREREYFMAN I
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • A History of Russian Literature

    Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky et al.BOOKA History of Russian Literature2018

    The History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. Five chronological parts by design unfold in diachronic histories; they can be read individually but are presented as inseparable across the span of a national literature. Throughout its course, this History follow…

  • The poetics of language

    Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky et al.BOOKA History of Russian Literature2018

    The chapter analyzes language-oriented poets and movements, showing how different conceptions of the poetic word emerged and influenced writing and performance throughout the period. The chapter follows the ramifications of avant-garde experiment, expressed in manifestos, public gestures, and performances. These innovations continued to influence the artistic practices of the 1920s and were revived later in the 1960s–80s. They comprised a legacy …

  • Local narratives

    Andrew Kahn, Andrew M Kahn et al.BOOKA History of Russian Literature2018

    Intergenerational feuds gave rise to literary works about dynastic continuity, which transformed local military warriors into religious heroes and led to the elevation of the Grand Prince as a national leader, a position crystallized late in the period by Ivan IV. The chapter charts a narrative about invasion and survival after the thirteenth-century depredations of the Mongols, and discusses how scribal techniques adjusted versions of texts to s…

  • Narratives of nation-building

    Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky et al.BOOKA History of Russian Literature2018

    This chapter focuses on two related subjects: the sharpening of historical awareness and the formation of Russian national consciousness. Mature historical narratives inspired historical fiction and drama. Tolstoy’s War and Peace offered a powerful nationalistic view of the Napoleonic Wars. Russians of all political persuasions attempted to articulate a view of Russia as a multinational empire and to define specifically Russian historical path. T…

  • Interlude

    Andrew Kahn, Andrew M Kahn et al.BOOKA History of Russian Literature2018

    In this space between the Poetics of Subjectivity and the Poetics of Language, we want to pause briefly to consider several otherwise unrelated poets who, for a portion of their careers, did not fit into the reigning poetic movements of their age, or do not smoothly align with the critical trends that dominated Russian literary studies in the twentieth century. These poets straddle the two types of poetics we have foregrounded in this part of our…

  • Prose Fiction

    Andrew Kahn, Andrew M Kahn et al.BOOKA History of Russian Literature2018

    This chapter considers the prose genres that developed in the period and their relative artistic success and limitations, recognizing that poetry had been much more open to innovation than prose. Forms such as the memoir (fictional as well as real), autobiography, letter writing, the allegorical novel, and the short story conform to the general pattern of literary norms adapted from European models. The chapter explains that a gap opened between …

  • Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, 1951-2015

    Open AccessEmily D Johnson, Carol Ueland et al.ARTICLESlavic Review2015

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin

    Open AccessDavid Bethea, Marcus Levitt et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to Pushkin2006

    Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at h…

  • On the Russian Duel

    Franca Beltrame, Irina ReyfmanARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2001

  • Death and Mutilation at the Dueling Site

    Open AccessIrina ReyfmanARTICLEThe Russian Review2001

  • Iurii Lotman's Pushkiniana

    Open AccessIrina ReyfmanARTICLESlavic Review1999Cited by: 1

    Iurii Lotman authored nearly forty books and articles about Aleksandr Pushkin's works, life, and personality; there is little doubt, therefore, that the poet was central to Lotman's scholarly interests. Nonetheless, Lotman turned to Pushkin's legacy relatively late in his scholarly career: while his first article was published in 1949, his first article on Pushkin appeared only in 1960. Both Lotman's kandidatskaia and doktorskaia dissertations we…

  • The Emergence of the Duel in Russia

    Irina ReyfmanARTICLEThe Russian Review1995Cited by: 2

    The first third of the nineteenth century stands out in Russian cultural memory as a period that saw the largest number of duels in the history of duelling in Russia. At that time, a passion for duelling permeated all segments of polite society and the duel became a working mechanism for resolving all kinds of conflicts, both serious and trivial-from quarrels over official business, to confrontations caused by social inequality within the nobilit…

  • Poetic Justice and Injustice

    Irina ReyfmanARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1994

  • Vasilii Trediakovsky

    Gitta Hammarberg, Irina ReyfmanARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1992

  • The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia

    Irina Reyfman, Stephen Lessing BaehrARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1992

  • Vasilii Trediakovsky, the Fool of the "New" Russian Literature

    Margareta O Thompson, Irina ReyfmanARTICLEThe Russian Review1992

  • Vasilii Trediakovsky

    I R Titunik, Irina ReyfmanARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1991

    A note on transliteration Introduction: myths and literary history 1. Vasilii Trediakovsky: man and myth 2. The 'new' Russian literature 3. Criticism, parody, and myth 4. Archaists and innovators: the fool in their polemics 5. Radishchev and Pushkin: accepting with the fool 6. The afterlife of the myth about Trediakovsky Conclusion Notes Index