| Vicissitudes of Genre in the Russian Novel: Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?, Dostoevsky's Demons, Gorky's Mother Contributor(s): Beyer Jr, Thomas R. (Editor), Valentino, Russell Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820449032 ISBN-13: 9780820449036 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $86.31 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| LCCN: 99052474 |
| Series: Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 166 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 1860s witnessed one of the most vibrant periods in the history of modern Russian literature. This book focuses on what was arguably its most influential genre - the Russian tendentious novel. While tracing the genre's early development through works such as Fathers and Sons and Notes from Underground, it simultaneously unfolds a unique approach to reading late-nineteenth-century Russian literature by showing how rich conflicting interpretations of the classics continue to be possible and by indicating numerous deep-rooted connections between the tendentious novels of the nineteenth century and their twentieth-century literary progeny. |