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  • Rhymed Talk and Ideophones: Recovering Extinct Discourse Practices from Russian Realist Fiction

  • Boris Maslov, Tatiana Nikitina
  • Journal:
    Signs and Society / Volume 10 / Issue 2 / Spring 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2025, pp. 169-190
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  • This article presents a case for approaching works of nineteenth-century realist fiction as proto-ethnographic documents that contain unique evidence for reconstructing extinct discourse practices. We focus on two previously undescribed phenomena: improvised rhyming in sparring dialogue, and the use of ideophones in oral storytelling.

  • 3 - Poem/Song

  • from Part I - Ideas of the Poem
  • Edited by Sean Pryor, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Poem
    Published online:
    30 May 2024
    Print publication:
    06 June 2024, pp 49-66

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the link between poem and song by examining the relationship between texts of poems, their metrical properties, their performance modes, and their musical settings. Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of choral support as an element of lyric and Michael Silverstein's analysis of metricalization in ritual serve as the main theoretical reference points. The chapter draws a distinction between, on the one hand, varieties of lyric that retain a historical link to song (such as Ancient Greek stanzaic forms of melos or the East Slavic chastushka) and, on the other, poems that evoke a potential sung performance, often as an invitation to set these poems to music (e.g., Schiller's “An die Freude”). The chapter then considers the political significance of collectively sung lyric with reference to the modern European revolutionary tradition, concluding with an examination of Fyodor Chaliapin's spontaneous performance of “Dubinushka” in Kiev in 1905. The formal properties of this working-class song, whose authors and origin are obscure but whose refrain was familiar to most audience members, contributed to a scene of secular social effervescence.

  • Feeding Upon the Double-Headed Eagle: A Zhivovian Reading of Kheraskov's Rossiad

  • Boris Maslov
  • Journal:
    Slavic Review / Volume 83 / Issue 2 / Summer 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 December 2024, pp. 281-299
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    Summer 2024
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  • Mikhail Kheraskov's (1733–1807) reputation has suffered a singular reversal—perhaps the most extreme and unfortunate peripety in Russian literary history. Toward the end of his life, Kheraskov's place at the very center of the national canon, in the minds of authors like Nikolai Karamzin and Andrei Turgenev, was beyond dispute. Today not even scholars of eighteenth-century Russian literature have a deep familiarity with his works; the Rossiad, Kheraskov's chef-d'oeuvre, was last reprinted in 1895.

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