Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Biography in Modern Russian Culture Contributor(s): Jones, Polly (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1781889104 ISBN-13: 9781781889107 Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
LCCN: 2018275360 |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.58 lbs) 182 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Like many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a dominant force in post-Soviet publishing. Yet studies of Russian biography's poetics and its role as a literary and cultural institution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries remain thin on the ground, a fact often lamented, yet not fully addressed, in the scattered writings on the subject. The present volume examines modern Russian biography as a literary form, a publishing phenomenon and a cultural force that reveals and contests hegemonic ideas of the role of the individual in society, and of the make-up of the human personality itself. |