This book examines the Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, and its role in Russian culture. The contributors examine the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narratives, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of censorship.
This book examines the Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, and its role in Russian culture. The contributors examine the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narratives, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of censorship.
Ludmilla A. Trigos is an independent scholar. Carol Ueland is professor emerita of Russian at Drew University.
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Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Writing and Re-Writing the Literary Canon: A History of Russian Biography in the Lives of Remarkable People Series-Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland Chapter 1: The Remarkable Pushkin-Angela Brintlinger Chapter 2: Larger than Life: The Meaning of Griboedov in Russian National Biography-Catherine O'Neil Chapter 3: N.V. Gogol, Biographer's Conundrum- Ludmilla A. Trigos Chapter 4: Remarkable Tolstoy, from the Age of the Tsars to the Putin Era- Caryl Emerson Chapter 5: Per Aspera Ad Astra: The Remarkable Lives of Fyodor Dostoevsky - Alexander Spektor Chapter 6: Searching for the "Real" Chekhov: Approaches and Appropriations-Radislav Lapushin Chapter 7: From Idol to Villain and (Almost) Back: Gorky as Editor and Subject of Lives of Remarkable People)- Irene Masing-Delic Chapter 8: Alexander Blok as the Model Modernist- Jonathan Stone Chapter 9: Narrating Eccentricity: The ZhZL Biographies of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva-Alexandra Smith Chapter 10: Mikhail Bulgakov: Refractions of a Writer's Life - J.A.E. Curtis Chapter 11: Between Biography and Mythology: The Russian and American Lives of Joseph Brodsky-Carol Ueland Bibliography Index About the Contributors
Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Writing and Re-Writing the Literary Canon: A History of Russian Biography in the Lives of Remarkable People Series-Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland Chapter 1: The Remarkable Pushkin-Angela Brintlinger Chapter 2: Larger than Life: The Meaning of Griboedov in Russian National Biography-Catherine O'Neil Chapter 3: N.V. Gogol, Biographer's Conundrum- Ludmilla A. Trigos Chapter 4: Remarkable Tolstoy, from the Age of the Tsars to the Putin Era- Caryl Emerson Chapter 5: Per Aspera Ad Astra: The Remarkable Lives of Fyodor Dostoevsky - Alexander Spektor Chapter 6: Searching for the "Real" Chekhov: Approaches and Appropriations-Radislav Lapushin Chapter 7: From Idol to Villain and (Almost) Back: Gorky as Editor and Subject of Lives of Remarkable People)- Irene Masing-Delic Chapter 8: Alexander Blok as the Model Modernist- Jonathan Stone Chapter 9: Narrating Eccentricity: The ZhZL Biographies of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva-Alexandra Smith Chapter 10: Mikhail Bulgakov: Refractions of a Writer's Life - J.A.E. Curtis Chapter 11: Between Biography and Mythology: The Russian and American Lives of Joseph Brodsky-Carol Ueland Bibliography Index About the Contributors
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