Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means claiming to offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on various aspects of the influence which the Classics have had on Russian literature at particularly significant junctures - the beginning of the nineteenth century; the age of the great Russian realist novel; the "Silver Age"; Stalin's terror; the "Thaw" after 1956; and the period just before the collapse of Soviet society. In...
Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of antiquit...
The fourteen essays collected in this volume, share a concern with the contexts to which we need to refer in order to understand not only the origins, but also the potential of Mikhail Bakhtin's thought.
The fourteen essays collected in this volume, share a concern with the contexts to which we need to refer in order to understand not only the origins,...