Russian classical literature today
Subtitle: the challenges/trials of messianism and mass culture
By: edited by Yordan Lyutskanov, Hristo Manolakev and Radostin Rusev
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781443859042
Subjects: Russian literature; Congresses; History and criticism; Messianism in literature; Popular culture in literature; Criticism
Description: "This book explores a range of (mis)uses of the Russian classical literature canon and its symbolic capital by contemporary Russian literature, cinema, literary scholarship, and mass culture"--Jacket.
Notes: Translations from the Russian, and in some case revised and edited versions, of the proceedings of a conference held in May 2013 and published in the Toronto Slavic Quarterly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.