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Reading Russian Fortunes : Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765, Hardback Book

Reading Russian Fortunes : Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 Hardback

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:Hardback
Pages:266 pages, 7 Halftones, unspecified
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:28/05/1998
Category:
- Cultural studies
- Fortune-telling & divination
ISBN:9780521581233

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Out of stock
Format:Hardback
Pages:266 pages, 7 Halftones, unspecified
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:28/05/1998
Category:
- Cultural studies
- Fortune-telling & divination
ISBN:9780521581233

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