Becoming Mikhail Lermontov
Subtitle: the ironies of romantic individualism in Nicholas I's Russia
By: David Powelstock.
Series: Studies in Russian literature and theory
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
Subjects: Lermontov, Mikhail I͡U︡rʹevich, 1814-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Romanticism -- Russia.; Individualism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Representing the romantic hero : death & the dream of death; title: The icon & the window : framing the social self & literary mediation; title: The ineffable self in the landscape of language : a romantic mythology of the word; title: Poetry as theater : taking the stage; title: Enter the other : the author & his readers; title: Sincere lies : irony & seduction in Hero of our time; title: Fierce integrity : inner freedom & poetic potentials; title: Living into language.