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A history of Russian literature from its beginnings to 1900 / D.S. Mirsky ; edited by Francis J. Whitfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirsky, D. S., Prince, 1890-1939.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 383 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Russian literature has always been inseparably linked to Russian history. D. S. Mirsky, in dealing with this fact, constantly keeps in mind the ever-colorful and ever-changing aspects of the one in discussing the other. With a keen and penetrating sense of values, fortified by a style sharp enough to carry every nuance of his meaning, he explores one of the most complex and fascinating literatures of the world.
- Sound in judgment, luminescent, and exquisitely written, Mirsky's book is essential reading for anyone interested in Russian literature. A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900 contains all of the author's History of Russian Literature and the first two chapters of his Contemporary Russian Literature. This single volume covers the beginning of Russian fiction, the Age of Classicism, the Age of Gogol, and the poets, journalists, novelists, and playwrights of the Age of Realism.
- Contents:
- 1. The Literature of Old Russia 3
- The Literary Language
- Literary Conditions
- Translated Works
- The Kievan Period
- The Chronicles
- The Campaign of Igor and Its Family
- Between Kiev and Moscow
- The Muscovite Period
- Muscovite Histories
- Beginnings of Fiction
- The End of Old Muscovy: Avvakum
- 2. The Passing of Old Russia 31
- The Southwestern Revival
- The Transition in Moscow and Petersburg
- The First Literary Verse
- The Drama
- Fiction and Chapbooks
- 3. The Age of Classicism 41
- Kantemir
- Trediakovsky
- Lomonosov
- Narrative and Lyric Poetry After Lomonosov Derzhavin
- Eighteenth-Century Prose
- Karamzin
- Contemporaries of Karamzin
- Krylov
- The Novel
- 4. The Golden Age of Poetry 73
- Zhukovsky
- Other Poets of the Older Generation
- Pushkin
- Minor
- Poets
- Baratynsky
- Yazykov
- Metaphysical Poets
- The Theater
- Griboyedov
- The Poets' Prose
- The Rise of the Novel
- The Prose of Pushkin
- The Growth of Journalism
- 5. The Age of Gogol 127
- The Decline of Poetry
- Koltsov
- Tyutchev
- Lermontov
- The Poetry of Reflection
- The Novelists of the Thirties
- Gogol
- Lermontov's Prose
- The First Naturalists
- The Petersburg Journalists
- The Moscow "Circles"
- The Slavophils
- Belinsky
- 6. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (I) 177
- Origin and Character of the Russian Realistic Novel
- Dostoyevsky's Early Work
- Aksakov Goncharov
- Turgenev
- The Sentimental Philanthropists
- Pisemsky
- Novelists of Provincial Character
- 7. The Age of Realism: Journalists, Poets, and Playwrights 215
- Criticism After Belinsky
- Grigoriev
- Herzen
- The radical Leaders
- Slavophils and Nationalists
- The Eclectic Poets
- A. K. Tolstoy
- Fet
- Realistic Poets
- Nekrasov
- The Utter Decline of Poetry
- Ostrovsky
- Sukhovo-Kobylin, Pisemsky, and Minor Dramatists
- The Costume Play
- 8. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (II) 256
- Tolstoy (Before 1880)
- Dostoyevsky (After 1849)
- Saltykov-Schedrin
- The Decline of the Novel in the Sixtes and Seventies
- The "Plebeian" Novelists
- 9. The End of a Great Age 302
- Tolstoy (After 1880)
- Leskov
- Poetry: Sluchevsky
- The Leaders of the Intelligentsia: Mikhaylovsky
- The Conservatives
- Leontiev
- 10. The Eighties and Early Nineties 347
- Garshin
- Minor Novelists
- Emigres
- Korolenko
- The Literary Lawyers
- Vladimir Soloviev Chekhov.
- Notes:
- "Contains Mirsky's A history of Russian literature from the earliest times to the death of Dostoyevsky (1881) and the first two chapters of his Contemporary Russian literature, 1881-1925"--Pref.
- Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0810116790
- OCLC:
- 41528100
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