Lina Steiner

For Humanity's Sake

The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This study links the careers of Russiaâ s three most famous nineteenth-century authors â Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin â into a single narrative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781487541828
• ISBN-10: 1487541821
• Artikelnr.: 61139035

Autorenporträt

Lina Steiner is an academic advisor attached to the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Culture (Obrazovanie, Bildung) and the Bildungsroman on Russian
Soil
1. Russian Literature from the National Awakening of the 1800s to the Rise
of Pochvennichestvo in the 1850s
2. Apollon Grigor'ev's Theory of Russian Culture
3. Yurii Lotman's Idea of the "Semiosphere"
4. The Semiospheric Novel and the Broadening of Cultural Self-Consciousness
Part II: Nineteenth-Century Russian Novels of Emergence
5. Pushkin's Quest for National Culture: The Captain's Daughter as a
Russian Bildungsroman
6. Educating Russia, Building Humanity: Tolstoy's War and Peace
7. Dostoevsky on Individual Reform and National Reconciliation: The
Adolescent
Conclusion
Appendix: The Russian Texts
Notes
Bibliography
Index