| The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature Contributor(s): Dobrenko, Evgeny (Editor), Balina, Marina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521698049 ISBN-13: 9780521698047 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.7 |
| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.06" W x 8.93" (1.13 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both migr literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and migr literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dobrenko, Evgeny: - Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian at the University of Sheffield.Balina, Marina: - Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. |