The imperative of reliability
Subtitle: Russian prose on the eve of the novel, 1820s-1850s
By: Victoria Somoff
Series: SRLT, Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory; Studies in Russian literature and theory
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780810130579
Subjects: History and criticism; Russian fiction; Russian prose literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the novel in prose --; title: Framing the truth : discourse as the object of discourse in the 1820s-30s --; title: In search of lost voice : the tale collector in the prose cycle --; title: The limits of optic power in the society tale --; title: Types, doubles, and the fantastical sources of narrative realism --; title: No need for dogs or women : transparent minds in Turgenev --; title: Waking up to the novel: the dream origin of Goncharov's Oblomov --; title: Afterword and afterward: Tolstoy's After the ball.