Elsevier

Russian Literature

Volume 119, January–February 2021, Pages 7-14
Russian Literature

New Approaches to Representations of Peasants in Russian Literature. Introduction

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Abstract

This introduction to the cluster seeks to reestablish “peasant studies” as not only a historical but also a literary subfield of investigation in Slavic Studies. The representation of peasants in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature is regarded in this article as an issue of sociological poetics, cultural history, and institutional theory. The authors give a critical overview of well-known and recent scholarship on the images and depiction of peasants and the narod in Russian literature and propose an interdisciplinary combination of approaches to the topic.

Keywords

Theory of Representation
Peasants in Russian Literature
Local Knowledge
Peasants as “Others”
Social Imaginary

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