query re: Russian commonplace books
Olga Meerson
meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU
Fri Sep 21 22:23:16 UTC 2007
It is a semejnyj al'bom
o.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rebecca Jane Stanton <rjs19 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
Date: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:44 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] query re: Russian commonplace books
> Actually I have at least one friend in Petersburg who does keep
> what
> would, I think, be best described as a commonplace book -- into
> which
> she writes poems and other fragments of literature she's read that
> strike a chord with her, effectively anthologizing them for
> personal
> use. She produces it quite often when I'm around and the subject
> of
> poetry comes up. I can't imagine she is alone in this --
> especially
> given the Russian affinity for books and libraries, the historical
> scarcity of commercially produced books, the tradition of samizdat,
> etc.
> -- but the question of whether it exists as a recognized cultural
> phenomenon with a name, much less a known history, in Russia is one
> I'm
> not in a position to answer.
>
> Regards,
> RJS
>
> --
> Rebecca Stanton
> Assistant Professor of Russian
> Dept. of Slavic Languages
> Barnard College, Columbia University
> 3009 Broadway
> New York, NY 10027
>
>
> Frans Suasso wrote:
>
> > I am affraid that putside the angosaxon world this phenomenon is
> > completely unknown. The Germans do not have it, the French do'nt,
> the
> > Dutch certainly not.
> > Why should the Russians have it?
> >
> > Dr Frans Suasso,
> > Naarden the Netherlands
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Fisher" <Anne.Fisher at WILLIAMS.EDU>
>
> > To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:45 PM
> > Subject: [SEELANGS] query re: Russian commonplace books
> >
> >
> >> Dear SEELANGers,
> >>
> >> Can any of you point me to resources on Russian commonplace
> books? I
> >> was having an interesting discussion with a (non-Slavicist)
> >> colleague about the difference between commonplace books,
> ladies'
> >> albums, and writers' notebooks, and realized that I've never
> come
> >> across any mention of Russians (whether readers or writers,
> literati
> >> or just literate) keeping a commonplace book.
> >>
> >> It doesn't help that I don't know what the Russian for
> "commonplace
> >> book" is!
> >>
> >> Thanks for any leads,
> >>
> >> Annie
> >>
> >> ____________________
> >>
> >> Anne O. Fisher
> >> Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
> >> Department of German and Russian
> >> Williams College
> >> Williamstown, MA 01267
> >> anne.fisher AT williams.edu
> >> office: 413.597.4723
> >> fax: 413.597.3028
> >
>
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