The Russian memoir
Subtitle: history and literature
By: edited and with an introduction by Beth Holmgren.
Contributors: Holmgren, Beth, 1955-
Series: Studies in Russian literature and theory
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Russian prose literature -- History and criticism.; Autobiography.; Biography as a literary form.; Self in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 206-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lidiia Ginzburg : images of the intelligentsia / Jane Gary Harris; title: The stuffed shirt unstuffed : Zabolotsky's "Early years" and the complexity of Soviet culture / Sarah Pratt; title: The italics are hers : matrophobia and the family romance in Elena Bonner's "Mothers and daughters" / Helena Goscilo; title: Accommodating consumers' desires : Elʹdar Riazanov's memoirs in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia / Alexander Prokhorov; title: The canonization of Dolgorukaia / Gitta Hammarberg; title: Art and Prostokvasha : Avdotʹia Panaeva's work / Jehanne Gheith and Beth Holmgren; title: The art of memory : cultural reverence as political critique in Evgeniia Ginzburg's writing of The Gulag / Natasha Kolchevska; title: English as sanctuary : Nabokov's and Brodsky's autobiographical writings / Galya Diment; title: The tale of bygone years : reconstructing the past in the contemporary Russian memoir / Marina Balina.