Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn; Routledge
Published: 1998
Number of pages: 972
Description: "This guide provides informative essays and selective bibliographies on the main writers of Russian for students and general readers. Covering all of Russian literature, this handbook emphasizes 19th- and 20th-century authors. The guide uses the Western alphabet, so anonymous works appear under their English title and are interfiled in alphabetical order with author entries. Entries for writers include a brief biography, a list of the writer's primary works in chronological order, a selected list of bibliographies, and critical studies. The guide begins with 13 detailed essays that cover most periods, topics, and genres of Russian literature. This reference source belongs in all libraries with large literature collections".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
Table of contents: label: Introductory essays. Old Russian literature
title: Robin Milner-Gulland; label: Pre-revolutionary Russian theatre
title: A.D.P. Briggs; label: Russian literature in the 18th century
title: W. Gareth Jones; label: Aleksandr Pushkin : from Byron to Shakespeare
title: David M. Bethea; label: The classic Russian novel
title: Richard Freeborn; label: The superfluous man in Russian literature
title: Ellen Chances; label: Women's writing in Russia
title: Catriona Kelly; label: Russian literary theory : from the formalists to Lotman
title: Michael O'Toole; label: Post-revolutionary Russian theatre
title: Birgit Beumers; label: Experiment and emigration : Russian literature, 1917-1953
title: Boris Lanin ; translated by David Gillespie; label: Socialist realism in Soviet literature
title: Katerina Clark; label: Thaws, freezes, and wakes : Russian literature, 1953-1991
title: David Gillespie; label: Russian literature in the post-Soviet period
title: Alla Latynina and Martin Dewhirst.