The Cambridge Introduction To Russian Literature

Author : Caryl Emerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139471686

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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature by Caryl Emerson Pdf

Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period. Fully accessible to students and readers with no knowledge of Russian, the volume includes a glossary and pronunciation guide of key Russian terms as well as a list of useful secondary works. The book will be of great interest to students of Russian as well as of comparative literature.

Author : Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828239

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature by Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina Pdf

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

Author : Michael Wachtel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521004934

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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry by Michael Wachtel Pdf

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Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495623

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture by Nicholas Rzhevsky Pdf

Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections, popular culture and the unique Russian contributions to the arts. Each of the eleven chapters has been revised or entirely rewritten to take account of current cultural conditions and the further reading brought up to date. The book reveals, for students, academic researchers and all those interested in Russia, the dilemmas, strengths and complexities of the Russian cultural experience.

Author : Malcolm V. Jones,Robin Feuer Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521479096

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The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel by Malcolm V. Jones,Robin Feuer Miller Pdf

Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy; the romantic, realist and modernist traditions; and technique, gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, among others, is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel.

Author : William J. Leatherbarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521654734

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The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii by William J. Leatherbarrow Pdf

Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Contributors examines topics such as Dostoevskii's relation to folk literature, money, religion, the family and science. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.

Author : Charles A. Moser
Publisher : Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015015510475

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The Cambridge History of Russian Literature by Charles A. Moser Pdf

Author : John Xiros Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113945790X

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The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot by John Xiros Cooper Pdf

T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual climate of both twentieth-century Britain and America, and how he became a key cultural figure on both sides of the Atlantic. The continuing controversies surrounding his writing and his thought are also addressed. With a useful guide to further reading, this is the most informative and accessible introduction to T. S. Eliot.

Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521887083

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The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by Brian Nelson Pdf

An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

Author : Andrew Kahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827416

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The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin by Andrew Kahn Pdf

Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at his enduring legacy in music and film from his own day to the present. Special attention is given to the reinvention of Pushkin as a cultural icon during the Soviet period. No other volume available brings together such a range of material and such comprehensive coverage of all Pushkin's major and minor writings. The contributions represent state-of-the-art scholarship that is innovative and accessible, and are complemented by a chronology and a guide to further reading.

Author : Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521552583

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Gender and Russian Literature by Rosalind J. Marsh Pdf

A 1996 overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, from 1600 onwards.

Author : Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521875356

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature by Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina Pdf

An overview of the main literary schools, authors and works in modern Russia and the Soviet Union.

Author : Susan Layton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521444439

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Russian Literature and Empire by Susan Layton Pdf

Provides a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the 19th-century age of empire-building.

Author : Rachel Polonsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521621798

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English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance by Rachel Polonsky Pdf

The turn of the nineteenth century, a time of exceptional creativity in Russia, was also a time of great receptivity to foreign cultural influences. Among the most important of these were English poetry and aesthetic thought, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination. This 1998 book is a study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism, focusing particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde. Framing this account is a pioneering exploration of the intellectual background to these influences in comparative scholarship, illuminating a common interest in myth, folklore, anthropology, and the origins of language. This book discusses the relationship between Russian conceptions of national identity, literary influence and the origins of comparative literary history.

Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521520002

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The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin Pdf

Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy s writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy s life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.