A fallen idol is still a god
Subtitle: Lermontov and the quandaries of cultural transition
By: Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780804753708
Subjects: Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich, -- 1814-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation; Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich, -- 1814-1841; Romanticism -- Russia
Description: Elucidates the historical distinctiveness and significance of the seminal nineteenth-century Russian poet, playwright, and novelist Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov (1814-1841). This book does so by demonstrating that Lermontov's works illustrate the condition of living in an epoch of transition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index
Table of contents: title: Cultural transition and its quandaries; title: Romanticism and its twilight in Western Europe and Russia; title: The ambivalence of influence : Lermontov's "not-Byronism"; title: The attenuation of romantic evil : a demon undone; title: Ideals to ideology : unmasking Masquerade; title: Post-romantic anomie I : a Hero of our time and its hero; title: Post-romantic anomie II : the "post-" scripts of A hero of our time; title: Lermontov's last words