The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century Russian literature /
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Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
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Description: | xxiv, 297 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge companions to literature Cambridge companions to literature. |
Subject: | Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. Russian literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8400792 |
Summary: | 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 émigré 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 émigré 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. |
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Physical Description: | xxiv, 297 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780521875356 (hardback) 0521875358 (hardback) 9780521698047 (pbk.) a0521698049 (pbk.) |