Memory and literature : intertextuality in Russian modernism / Renate Lachmann ; translated by Roy Sellars and Anthony Wall ; foreword by Wolfgang Iser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lachmann, Renate, 1936-

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 87.

Theory and history of literature

Standardized Title:

Gedächtnis und Literatur. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--19th century--Criticism, Textual.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--20th century--Criticism, Textual.

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Intertextuality.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xxv, 436 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1997]

Summary:

A textual and theoretical analysis of key texts in Russian literature.

In Memory and Literature, Renate Lachmann combines literary theory with textual analysis in a consideration of some of the major texts of Russian modernism. Reflecting on works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Nabokov, and lesser-known Russian writers, Lachmann goes beyond formalist approaches to literature by developing insights from structuralist and poststructuralist theory.

Lachmann argues that memory is crucial for a full understanding of the way literary writing functions, and explores memory as an essential concern in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian prose and poetry.

Throughout, Memory and Literature is rigorously formal, culturally astute, and stylistically brilliant, and is essential reading for those who enjoy Russian literature and literary criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-420) and index.

ISBN:

0816629064

0816629072

OCLC:

35986424