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Fools and Folly in Old Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Richard W. F . Pope
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Slavic Review , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 476 - 481
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1980

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1. Problemy poetiki i istorii literatury: Sbornik statei (Saransk, 1973), pp. 73-90.

2. Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton, 1973), p. 46.

3. The chapter was published separately, with only minor stylistic changes, in Russian Literature, 5, no. 4 (October 1977): 373-87.

4. B., Swain, Fools and Folly during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (New York, 1932Google Scholar).

5. E., Welsford, The Fool: His Social and Literary History (Gloucester, Mass., 1935Google Scholar).

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11. Ibid., p. 59.

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13. Curtius, Ernst Robert, “Jest and Earnest in Medieval Literature,” in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. Willard R. Trask (New York, 1963), pp. 417–35 Google Scholar.

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16. Much of the material in this chapter is also found in the chapter on Avraamii/Afanasii ( “Inok Avramii, on zhe iurodivyi Afanasii” ) in Panchenko, A. M., Russkaia stikhotvornaia kul'tura XVII veka (Leningrad, 1973), pp. 82–102 Google Scholar.

17. But see Natalie Challis and Horace W. Dewey, “The Blessed Fools of Old Russia,” Jahrbiicher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, n.s., 22, no. 1 (1974): 2–5Google Scholar.

18. The chapter is a reworking and expansion of his article (A. M. Panchenko, “Iurodstvo kak zrelishche” ) which appeared in Akademiia nauk SSSR, Institut russkoi literatury, Otdel drevnerusskoi literatury, Trudy, vol. 29: Voprosy istorii russkoi srednevekovoi literatury (Leningrad, 1974), pp. 144-53.

19. On Christ's foolishness, see Willeford, , The Fool and his Sceptre, pp. 231–33Google Scholar.

20. Panchenko, Likhachev and, “Smekhovoi mir” Drevnei Rusi, p. 156 Google Scholar.

21. Cf. Natalie Challis and Horace W. Dewey, “Byzantine Models for Russia's Literature of Divine Folly (Jurodstvo),” in Benjamin, Stolz, ed., In Honor of James Ferrell (Ann Arbor, 1977), pp. 43–44 Google Scholar.

22. See Welsford, The Fool, chapter 4 ( “Origins: The Fool as Poet and Clairvoyant” ).

23. See Thompson, E, “Russian Holy Fools and Shamanism,” in American Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, vol. 2: Literature, ed. Victor Terras (Columbus, Ohio, 1978), pp. 691–706 Google Scholar.

24. After crowning Socrates, Alcibiades also points out that Socrates is an actor who feigns ignorance but is wise, that he only seems weak whereas he actually has great endurance, and that even though he appears to speak ridiculously, using curious phrases that invoke laughter among the foolish, in actual fact his words make profoundly good sense.

25. Panchenko, Likhachev and, “Smekhovoi mir” Drevnei Rusi, p. 94Google Scholar. For divine folly in Western literature, see, for example, F. Vandenbroucke,” ‘Fous pour le Christ': En Occident,” in Dictionnaire de spiritualite ascetique et mystique: Doctrine et histoire, vol. 5 (Paris, 1964), columns 761-70.

26. Swain, , Fools and Folly, pp. 36-38, 199-200Google Scholar.

27. Ibid., p. 40. This occurred in the West at exactly the same time as it did in Russia.

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