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Author | : Neil Cornwell |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042003293 |
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This collection of essays is the first book to appear on the society tale in nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Written by a team of British and American scholars, the volume is based on a symposium on the society tale held at the University of Bristol in 1996. The essays examine the development of the society tale in Russian fiction, from its beginnings in the 1820s until its subsumption into the realist novel, later in the century. The contributions presented vary in approach from the text or author based study to the generic or the sociological. Power, gender and discourse theory all feature strongly and the volume should be of considerable interest to students and scholars of nineteenth-century Russian literature. There are essays covering Pushkin, Lermontov, Odoevsky and Tolstoi, as well as more minor writers, and more general and theoretical approaches.
Author | : Cornwell |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2023-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 900464797X |
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This collection of essays is the first book to appear on the society tale in nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Written by a team of British and American scholars, the volume is based on a symposium on the society tale held at the University of Bristol in 1996. The essays examine the development of the society tale in Russian fiction, from its beginnings in the 1820s until its subsumption into the realist novel, later in the century. The contributions presented vary in approach from the text or author based study to the generic or the sociological. Power, gender and discourse theory all feature strongly and the volume should be of considerable interest to students and scholars of nineteenth-century Russian literature. There are essays covering Pushkin, Lermontov, Odoevsky and Tolstoi, as well as more minor writers, and more general and theoretical approaches.
Author | : Rebecca Epstein Matveyev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Russian prose literature |
ISBN | : |
Download Reworkings of the Society Tale in the Nineteenth-century Russian Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mikhail Chulkov |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2012-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1501756648 |
Download Three Russian Tales of the Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For those who cannot read the language of the original texts, the lively and varied world of eighteenth-century Russian literature has been largely inaccessible. In this valuable collection, expert translator David Gasperetti presents three seminal tales that express the major literary, social, and philosophical concerns of late-eighteenth-century Russia. The country's first bestseller, Matvei Komarov's Vanka Kain tells the story of a renowned thief and police spy and is also an excellent historical source on the era's criminal underworld. Mikhail Chulkov's The Comely Cook is a cross between Moll Flanders, with its comic emphasis on a woman of ill-repute who struggles to secure her place in society, and Tristram Shandy, with its parody of the conventions of novel writing. Finally, Nikolai Karamzin's Poor Liza, the story of a young woman who kills herself over a failed love affair, set the standard for writing sentimentalist fiction in Russia. Taken as a whole, these three works outline the beginnings of modern prose fiction in Russia and also illuminate the literary culture that would give rise to the Golden Age of Russian letters in the middle of the next century.
Author | : Mikhail Zoshchenko |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0231545150 |
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“Dralyuk’s new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”—The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet beneath Kolenkorov’s intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They tell tales of unrequited love and amorous misadventures among down-on-their-luck musicians, provincial damsels, aspiring poets, and liberal aristocrats hopelessly out of place in the new Russia, against a backdrop of overcrowded apartments, scheming, and daydreaming. Zoshchenko’s deadpan style and sly ventriloquy mask a biting critique of Soviet life—and perhaps life in general. An original perspective on Soviet society in the 1920s and simply uproariously funny, Sentimental Tales at last shows Anglophone readers why Zoshchenko is considered among the greatest humorists of the Soviet era. “A book that would make Gogol guffaw.”—Kirkus Reviews “If you find Chekhov a bit tame and want a more bite to your fiction, then you need a dose of Zoshchenko, the premier Russian satirist of the twentieth century . . . Snap up this thin volume and enjoy.”—Russian Life “Mikhail Zoshchenko masterfully exhibits a playful seriousness. . . . Juxtaposing joyful wit with the bleakness of Soviet Russia, Sentimental Tales is a potent antidote for Russian literature’s dour reputation.”—Foreword Reviews “Superb.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
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Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1978-06 |
Genre | : Literature and society |
ISBN | : 0804766754 |
Download Literature and Society in Imperial Russia, 1800-1914 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ranging in topic from general discussions of literary theory to close readings of well known literary works, these nine papers address nearly every literary movement in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Russia, and a number of major writers, including Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky. Four kinds of issues are addressed: theoretical problems in the relationship of literature and society, the reading public, the rhetoric and ideologies of writers and critics, and the relationship between fictional and social worlds. In confronting some of the ways in which the social and literary aspects of Russian culture have imposed themselves upon each other, this volume seeks an approach to Russian literature that neglects neither the dynamics of social interaction nor the forms and traditions of literature. The contributors are Robert L. Belknap, Jeffrey Brooks, Edward J. Brown, Donald Fanger, Jean Franco, Robert Louis Jackson, Hugh McLean, Victor Ripp, and William Mills Todd III.
Author | : Joe Andrew |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1982-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349044180 |
Download Russian Writers and Society in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Joost van Baak |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9042029153 |
Download The House in Russian Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The domestic theme has a tremendous anthropological, literary and cultural significance. The purpose of this book is to analyse and interpret the most important realisations and tendencies of this thematic complex in the history of Russian literature. It is the first systematic book-length exploration of the meaning and development of the House theme in Russian literature of the past 200 years. It studies the ideological, psychological and moral meanings which Russian cultural and literary tradition have invested in the house or projected on it in literary texts. Central to this study’s approach is the concept of the House Myth, consisting of a set of basic fabular elements and a set of general types of House images. This House Myth provides the general point of reference from which the literary works were analyzed and compared. With the help of this analytical procedure characteristics of individual authors could be described as well as recurrent patterns and features discerned in the way Russian literature dealt with the House and its thematics, thus reflecting characteristics of Russian literary world pictures, Russian mentalities and Russian attitudes towards life. This book is of interest for students of Russian literature as well as for those interested in the House as a cultural and literary topic, in the semiotics of literature, and in relations between culture, anthropology and literature.
Author | : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2019-11-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download A House of Gentlefolk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ivan Turgenev's 'A House of Gentlefolk' is a timeless classic that tells the story of Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman whose tragic love life mirrors Turgenev's own experiences. The novel begins with Lavretsky falling in love with the beautiful Varvara Pavlovna and marrying her, only to discover her infidelity and return to his family estate in Russia. There, he meets his cousin's daughter, Liza, and falls deeply in love with her.
Author | : Neil Cornwell |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fantasy in literature |
ISBN | : 9789042006157 |
Download The Gothic-fantastic in Nineteenth-century Russian Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the contents: From Pantheon to Pandemonium (Richard Peace). - Karamzin's Gothic tale: The Island of Bornholm (Derek Offord). - Alessandra TOSI: At the origins of the Russian Gothic novel: Nikolai Gnedich's Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803) (Alessandra Tosi). - Does Russian Gothic verse exist? The Case of Vasilii Zhukovskii (Michael Pursglove). - The fantastic in Russian Romantic prose: Pushkin's The Queen of Spades (Claire Whitehead).