Russian literature / Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky.
| Author/creator | Wachtel, Andrew |
| Other author | Vinit͡skiĭ, I. I͡U. (Ilʹi͡a I͡Urʹevich), 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2009. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cultural history of literature Cultural history of literature. ^A605595 |
| Contents | Introduction: Labyrinth of links: Russian literature and its cultural contexts -- The origins: Russian Medieval culture -- The spirit of Peter: Russian culture in the eighteenth century -- The spirit of poetry: Russian culture in the age of Alexander I (1801-25) -- The Russian idea: the quest for national identity in nineteenth-century Russian culture -- Russian psychology: the quest for personal identity in nineteenth-century Russian culture -- Life as theatre: Russian modernism -- The art of the future: the Russian avant-garde -- The future as present: Soviet culture -- After the future: Russian thaw culture -- Instead of the apocalypse: Russian culture today -- Conclusion: whither Russian literature. |
| Abstract | For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, are almost completely terra incognita, as are the complex prose experiments of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Leskov, Andrei Belyi, and Andrei Platonov. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-307) and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 9780745636856 0745636853 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2009284512 |
| ISBN | 0745673503 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780745673509 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780745654577 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0745654576 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (pbk.) |
| ISBN | (pbk.) |
| Stock number | 6CDBA294-B855-494A-9638-54C009F047BC OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
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