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The Literature of Georgia: A History

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Joseph Burridge Books
(Chadwell Heath, Reino Unido)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 3rd Edition. English and Georgian. Description: 320 pages : map ; 24 cm Contents: PART I -- THE MAKING OF THE CLASSICAL AGE -- THE FIFTH TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURIES: ASCETICISM & BYZANTIUM -- 1. Laying the foundation 17 -- 2. Lyrical poetry: hymnography 27 -- 3. Original prose: from homilies to hagiography 42 -- 4. The Lives of the Fathers: Serapion Zarzmeli, Grigol Khandzteli 55 -- 5. Chronicles: the 'Conversion' and 'Life' of Georgia 62 -- 6. The dawn of secular literature: Balahvar and lodasap 70 -- PART II -- THE GOLDEN AGE, THE FALL & THE RESURRECTION -- THE TWELFTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES: COURT & COURTLY LOVE -- 7. Prose romance: Rustaveli's precursors 75 -- 8. Rustaveli and The Knight in the Panther Skin 84 -- 9. Religious literature of the Golden Age 96 -- 10. The later chronicles 101 -- 11. Rebuilding on a tabula rasa 106 -- 12. The authorial persona: King Teimuraz I 114 -- 13. Kings and enlightenment 119 -- 14. Three great poets: Guramishvili, Sayat-Nova and Besiki 128 -- 15. The last gasps of the eighteenth century 140 -- PART III -- ROMANTIC & CIVIC LITERATURE -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: RUSSIAN TUTELAGE -- 16. Exiled royalty: the Bagration writers 144 -- 17. Romantic poets: Chavchavadze, the Orbelianis, Baratashvili 152 -- 18. The birth of modern prose and drama 166 -- 19. The luminaries: Ilia Chavchavadze and Akaki Tsereteli 177 -- 20. Lesser luminaries: populists and pedagogues 189 -- 21. Melodrama, revolt and commercial literature 196 -- PART IV -- THE REDISCOVERY OF ROOTS -- 1880-1914: VAZHA-PSHAVELA & HEROIC FOLK POETRY -- 22. Vazha-Pshavela 207 -- 23. Folk poetry and its relevance to literature 217 -- PART V -- THE AGE OF INTERNATIONALISM -- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE DASHING OF HOPE -- 24. Two theatres: the political arena and drama 230 -- 25. Narrative prose and Mikheil Javakhishvili zi 237 -- 26. Dreaming poets: Grishashvili, Robakidze and the Blue Horns 250 -- 27. Mythmakers under Socialism: Shanshiashvili, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia 271 -- 28. The poetry of Galaktion Tabidze, Giorgi Leonidze and Simon Chikovani 278 -- 29. Beria's Holocaust 289 -- 30. Literature after the Great Terror 302 -- 31. From thaw to deluge 311 -- 32. After the 'rose revolution' 327 -- Notes 333 -- Bibliography 342 -- Index 353. Nº de ref. del artículo: 10jbew24

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