Reading Russian Fortunes : Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 Paperback / softback
by Faith (University of London) Wigzell
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature series
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Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present.
Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society.
Chapters are devoted to professional fortune-tellers and their clients, and to the publishers of the books.
An analysis of the relationship between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture, where divination played a very significant role, leads on to a discussion of the underlying reasons for the persistence of fortune-telling in modern Russian society.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 7 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2006
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- ISBN:9780521024792
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 7 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2006
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- ISBN:9780521024792
