Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution
Subtitle: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521481090
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Russian Literature; Jewish authors; Ethnic Groups In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Literary Criticism; Russia; Jews; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Criticism and interpretation; Erenburg, Ilia; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Mandelshtam, Osip; Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich; Babel, I; Soviet Union; (Isaak),; 20th century; History and criticism; Intellectual life
First sentence: Language has often been deemed a determining factor in the definition of culture, something which in the nineteenth century presumed the correspondence of natural with linguistic boundaries, a Romantic view that drew on Schiller and Fichte.