The Russian twentieth-century short story
Subtitle: a critical companion
By: edited and with an introduction by Lyudmila Parts.
Contributors: Parts, Lyudmila.
Series: Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth century
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781934843444; 9781934843697
Subjects: Short stories, Russian -- History and criticism; Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: Russian 20th-century short story
Description: "The articles in the Critical Companion offer analyses of Russian short stories that encompass the major aesthetic and thematic concern of the short story genre in the twentieth century. Each article focuses on a single story by authors ranging from Chekhov and Bunin to Nabokov and Shalamov, to Tolstaya and Pelevin; together they outline the developments in each author's oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. The short story rises to prominence during periods of cultural and political transition when literary conventions and ideologies lose some or most of their authority. The Russian twentieth-century short story in particular flourished in a century that saw an abundance of such shifts: cultural, ideological, and political. In this collection, American, European and Russian scholars discuss some of the best twentieth century Russian short stories and their recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The Introduction provides a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. The book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the Short Story, and Genre theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.