LITERARY-HISTORICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE RUSSIAN NON-RENAISSANCE IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT

While the absence of a Renaissance in Russia has been taken for granted, the implications of this fact have not been exploited in seeking to understand the general trajectory of Russia's literary development. "Literary-Historical Consequences of the Russian Non-Renaissance in a Comparative Context" adopts a pan-Slavic and European perspective that refracts it in the light of a key concomitant, the absence of a rationalizing theology, and concludes with a semiotic characterization of the three main modes of representation - iconic, deictic, and symbolic - that seeks to explain the special features of Russian literary production.