Proverbs in Russian literature
Subtitle: from Catherine the Great to Alexander Solzhenitsyn
By: edited by Kevin J. McKenna.
Contributors: McKenna, Kevin J.
Series: Supplement series of Proverbium, 3
Publisher: University of Vermont
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Chulkov, Mikhail Dmitrievich, 1740-1793; Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881; Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; Solzhenit͡s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-; Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; Proverbs, Russian -- History and criticism; Proverbs in literature
Notes: Text in English; proverbs in transliterated Russian with English translation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-112).
Table of contents: title: Functions of proverbs in Mikhail Chulkov's novel, 'The comely cook, or, The adventures of a debauched woman' / Rimma Baykova; title: Proverbs and the empress : the role of Russian proverbs in Catherine the Great's 'All sorts and sundries' / Kevin J. McKenna; title: Raskolnikov and Tsar Gorox / James L. Rice; title: Tolstoy's use of proverbs in 'The power of darkness' / Andrew Donskov; title: Set phrases of consolation and exhortation : judging proverbial and Biblical wisdom in 'Anna Karenina' / Rebecca Hogan; title: Peasants, proverbs, and problems of historical narrative in 'August 1914' / John Kohan; title: A bibliography of proverbs in Russian literature / Wolfgang Mieder.