Caryl Emerson

The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An engaging overview of the Russian literary tradition, with a glossary and guide to further reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9780521844697
• ISBN-10: 052184469X
• Artikelnr.: 23428425

Autorenporträt

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Critical models, committed readers, and three Russian ideas
2. Heroes and their plots
3. Traditional narratives
4. Western eyes on Russian realities: the eighteenth century
5. The astonishing nineteenth century: Romanticisms
6. Realisms: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov
7. Symbolist and modernist world-building: three cities, three novels, and the devil
8. The Stalin years: socialist realism, anti-Fascist fairy tales, wilderness
9. Coming to terms and seeking other terms: from the First Thaw (1956) to the end of the millennium
Postscript: the Russian word in a fluid world
Notes
Pronunciations and definitions of Russian words, proper names, and place names occurring in the text (with first occurrence noted)
The Russian literary canon in English
Guide to further reading.