The Literature of Georgia: A History

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ISBN: 9780700711635 | 0700711635
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/16/2000

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The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years' history.

Map of historical regions of Georgia	p. 8
Preface	p. 9
Preface to the Second Edition	p. 14
Transliteration of the Georgian alphabet	p. 15
The Making of the Classical Age: The Fifth to the Eleventh Centuries: Asceticism and Byzantium
Laying the foundation	p. 19
Lyrical poetry: hymnography	p. 27
Original prose: from homilies to hagiography	p. 40
The Lives of the Fathers: Serapion Zarzmeli, Grigol Khandzteli	p. 50
Chronicles: the 'Conversion' and 'Life' of Georgia	p. 56
The dawn of secular literature: Balahvar and Iodasap	p. 63
The Golden Age, the Fall and the Resurrection: The Twelfth to the Eighteenth Centuries: Court and Courtly Love
Prose romance: Rustaveli's precursors	p. 69
Rustaveli and The Knight in the Panther Skin	p. 76
Religious literature of the Golden Age	p. 87
The later chronicles	p. 91
Rebuilding on a tabula rasa	p. 96
The authorial persona: King Teimuraz I	p. 102
Kings and enlightenment	p. 107
Three great poets: Guramishvili, Sayat-Nova and Besiki	p. 115
The last gasps of the eighteenth century	p. 126
Romantic and Civic Literatur: The Nineteenth Century: Russian Tutelage
Exiled royalty: the Bagration writers	p. 131
Romantic poets: Chavchavadze, the Orbelianis, Baratashvili	p. 138
The birth of modern prose and drama	p. 150
The luminaries: Ilia Chavchavadze and Akaki Tsereteli	p. 159
Lesser luminaries: populists and pedagogues	p. 169
Melodrama, revolt and commercial literature	p. 175
The Rediscovery of Roots: 1880-1914: Vazha-Pshavela and Heroic Folk Poetry
Vazha-Pshavela	p. 187
Folk poetry and its relevance to literature	p. 196
The Age of Internationalism: The Twentieth Century: The Dashing of Hope
Two theatres: the political arena and drama	p. 211
Narrative prose and Mikheil Javakhishvili	p. 216
Dreaming poets: Grishashvili, Robakidze and the Blue Horns	p. 227
Mythmakers under Socialism: Shanshiashvili, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia	p. 245
The poetry of Galaktion Tabidze, Giorgi Leonidze and Simon Chikovani	p. 251
Beria's Holocaust	p. 261
Literature after the Great Terror	p. 271
From thaw to deluge	p. 279
Notes	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 303
Index	p. 311
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