Author : Victor Terras
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300049718
Surveys Russian literature from the eleventh century to the present, set within the context of political, social, religious, and philisophical developments
Author : Victor Terras
Publisher :
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1991-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780756761486
This magisterial work, written by one of the world1s foremost Slavic scholars, presents a survey of Russian literature from its beginnings in the 11th cent. to modern times. Terras argues that Russian literature has reflected, defined, and shaped the nation1s beliefs and goals, and he sets his survey against a background of social and political developments and religious and philosophic thought. This encyclopedic survey has capsule profiles of 100s of writers and literary works, capturing the full sweep of Russian literature, from 6th-cent. saints1 lives to Mayakovsky1s cubo-futurist1 theater and contemporary samizdat poetry. The scope is vast: folk songs and tales, picaresque adventures, fables, drama, satire, novels, poetry, essays, and criticism. 3Superb.2
Author : Andrew Kahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192549537
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day. The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and personal. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century. The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular brings out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.
Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191577502
This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Charles Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521425674
An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.
Author : Jonathan Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810871823
The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres...
Author : Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2011-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822977443
This edited volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas—political, intellectual, and institutional—the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. The chapters follow early movements such as formalism, the Bakhtin Circle, Proletklut, futurism, the fellow-travelers, and the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. By the cultural revolution of 1928, literary criticism became a mechanism of Soviet policies, synchronous with official ideology. The chapters follow theory and criticism into the 1930s with examinations of the Union of Soviet Writers, semantic paleontology, and socialist realism under Stalin. A more "humanized" literary criticism appeared during the ravaging years of World War II, only to be supplanted by a return to the party line, Soviet heroism, and anti-Semitism in the late Stalinist period. During Khrushchev's Thaw, there was a remarkable rise in liberal literature and criticism, that was later refuted in the nationalist movement of the "long" 1970s. The same decade saw, on the other hand, the rise to prominence of semiotics and structuralism. Postmodernism and a strong revival of academic literary studies have shared the stage since the start of the post-Soviet era. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in emigre literary theory and criticism.
Author : Evelyn Bristol
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Victor Terras
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300048681
Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Author : Avril Pyman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521024303
This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, from its initial hostile reception as a symptom of European decadence to its absorption into the mainstream of Russian literature, and eventual disintegration. It focuses on the two generations of writers whose work served as the seedbed of Existentialism in thought and of Modernism in prose and the performing arts, and reassesses their achievements in the light of modern research. At the centre of the study are the texts themselves, with prose quoted in English translation and poetry given in the original Russian with prose translations. There is a valuable bibliography of primary sources and an extensive chronological appendix. This book will fill a long-felt gap, and will be invaluable to students and teachers of Russian and comparative literature, Symbolism, modernism, and pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
