| The Exotic Prisoner in Russian Romanticism Contributor(s): Beyer Jr, Thomas R. (Editor), Austin, Paul M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820433462 ISBN-13: 9780820433462 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $57.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Foreign Language Study | Russian - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 891.709 |
| LCCN: 96018972 |
| Series: Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 214 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Besides new themes of alienation and desires for self-fulfillment, European Romanticism brought to Russian literature the congenial themes of captivity and exotic worlds. Between 1820 and 1840 there developed an enormous literature with hosts of prisoners in exotic locales in the Caucasus. Loneliness and desire for freedom competed with elaborate descriptions of unknown peoples - Chechens, Georgians, Tatars and Circassians - to produce a literature of unparalleled brilliance, brought to a dazzling culmination by Lermontov's -Bela- in 1839. The exotic prisoner theme with its exotic trappings then disappears, leaving as its heritage the powerful themes of loneliness and introspection which other writers were subsequently to give their own unique treatment." |