BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES
The article examines the development of the genre of biography and life writing that influenced Russian biographical tradition. This tradition stems from Plutarch’s Comparative Biographies that influenced English life writing represented by such names as James Boswell, Lytton Strachey, and others. P...
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| description | The article examines the development of the genre of biography and life writing that influenced Russian biographical tradition. This tradition stems from Plutarch’s Comparative Biographies that influenced English life writing represented by such names as James Boswell, Lytton Strachey, and others. Philosophical premises of the English biography genre are to be found in the treatise Heroes, HeroWorship, and The Heroic in History (1841) by Thomas Carlyle. French tradition represented by Gaston Tissandier’s book Science Martyrs pursued the opposite aim: to honor ordinary scientists and inventors, responsible for the technical advance of the modern civilization. Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel practiced a different approach to life writing in that they conceived biography as the history of the person’s spiritual development. This conception had direct influence on the theorists of biography genre in Russia, G. O. Vinokur, and A. G. Gabrichevsky. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a4aa82ddef0c4c1c8f0ae74efde298ca2025-08-20T03:38:13ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureStudia Litterarum2500-42472541-85642016-12-0113-4435910.22455/2500-4247-2016-1-3-4-43-59BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCESEugenia V. Ivanova 0A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of SciencesThe article examines the development of the genre of biography and life writing that influenced Russian biographical tradition. This tradition stems from Plutarch’s Comparative Biographies that influenced English life writing represented by such names as James Boswell, Lytton Strachey, and others. Philosophical premises of the English biography genre are to be found in the treatise Heroes, HeroWorship, and The Heroic in History (1841) by Thomas Carlyle. French tradition represented by Gaston Tissandier’s book Science Martyrs pursued the opposite aim: to honor ordinary scientists and inventors, responsible for the technical advance of the modern civilization. Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel practiced a different approach to life writing in that they conceived biography as the history of the person’s spiritual development. This conception had direct influence on the theorists of biography genre in Russia, G. O. Vinokur, and A. G. Gabrichevsky.http://old.studlit.ru/1-3-4/Ivanova.pdfbiography genrePlutarchJames BoswellLytton StracheyThomas CarlyleGaston TissandierWilhelm DiltheyGeorg SimmelV. O. VinokurA. G. Gabrichevsky |
| spellingShingle | Eugenia V. Ivanova BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES Studia Litterarum biography genre Plutarch James Boswell Lytton Strachey Thomas Carlyle Gaston Tissandier Wilhelm Dilthey Georg Simmel V. O. Vinokur A. G. Gabrichevsky |
| title | BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES |
| title_full | BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES |
| title_fullStr | BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES |
| title_full_unstemmed | BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES |
| title_short | BIOGRAPHY GENRE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: EUROPEAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES |
| title_sort | biography genre in russian literature european and british influences |
| topic | biography genre Plutarch James Boswell Lytton Strachey Thomas Carlyle Gaston Tissandier Wilhelm Dilthey Georg Simmel V. O. Vinokur A. G. Gabrichevsky |
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