The Cambridge introduction to Russian literature
By: Caryl Emerson.
Series: Cambridge introductions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521844697; 9780521606523
Subjects: Russian literature -- History and criticism; Russian literature -- Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Critical models, committed readers, and three Russian ideas; title: Heroes and their plots; title: Traditional narratives; title: Western eyes on Russian realities : the eighteenth century; title: The astonishing nineteenth century : romanticisms; title: Realisms : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov; title: Symbolist and modernist world-building : three cities, three novels, and the devil; title: The Stalin years : socialist realism, anti-fascist fairy tales, wilderness; title: Coming to terms and seeking new terms : from the first Thaw (1956) to the end of the millennium.