Critical Insights: Russia's Golden Age

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

Volume

Copyright

2013

ISBN13

9781619252233

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This volume presents a variety of new essays on 19th century Russian literature, traditionally referred to as the Golden Age of Russian literature. Several essays survey the critical conversation regarding this genre, explore its cultural and historical contexts and offer close and comparative reading of key texts in the genre.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On Russia's Golden Age.
Critical Contexts.
1: “My Country is Russian Literature”: History and Literary Development in the Golden Age.
2: How a Canon is Made: A Critical Response to Russia's Golden Age Literature.
3: The Golden Age of Russian Poetry.
4: Nineteenth-Century Russian Thought and Literature.
Critical Readings.
5: Pushkin: A Monument to Poetry.
6: Unseen Beauty, Shadows of Liminal Space, and the Caustic Passions of Exile: The Life and Writings of M. Yu. Lermontov.
7: Romanticism, the Caucasus, and Russian Orientalism.
8: Nikolai Gogol's Complex Relationship with Food: Between Romanticism and Realism.
9: Ivan Turgenev: An Advocate of Russian Realism.
10: The Life, Works, and Times of Fyodor Dostoevsky: Realism in the Golden Age.
11: The Old Magician in Pursuit of Truth: Lev Tolstoy's Lifelong Search for Meaning.
12: America Reacts to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy: Early Archival Evidence.
13: “There is a Way Out:” The Cherry Orchard in the Twenty-First Century.
14: Russia ‘Musically’ in the Nineteenth Century: Questions of East and West.
Resources.
Additional Works of Russia's Golden Age.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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