On psychological prose / Lydia Ginzburg ; translated and edited by Judson Rosengrant ; foreword by Edward J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginzburg, Lidii︠a︡, 1902-1990.

Contributor:

Rosengrant, Judson, 1941-

Standardized Title:

Psikhologicheskoĭ proze. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology in literature.

Prose literature--History and criticism.

Prose literature.

Psychological fiction--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Comparable in importance to Mikhail Bakhtin, Lydia Ginzburg distinguished herself among Soviet literary critics through her investigation of the social and historical elements that relate verbal art to life in a particular culture. Her work speaks directly to those Western critics who may find that deconstructionist and psychoanalytical strategies by themselves are incapable of addressing the full meaning of literature. Here, in her first book to be translated into English, Ginzburg examines the reciprocal relationship between literature and life by exploring the development of the image of personality as both an aesthetic and social phenomenon. Showing that the boundary between traditional literary genres and other kinds of writing is a historically variable one, Ginzburg discusses a wide range of Western texts from the eighteenth century onward--including familiar letters and other historical and social documents, autobiographies such as the Memoires of Saint-Simon, Rousseau's Confessions, and Herzen's My Past and Thoughts, and the novels of Stendhal, Flaubert, Turgenev, and Tolstoi. A major portion of the study is devoted to Tolstoi's contribution to the literary investigation of personality, especially in his epic panorama of Russian life, War and Peace, and in Anna Karenina.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD / Brown, Edward J.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

The "Human Document" and the Construction of Personality

PART ONE. Bakunin, Stankevich, and the Crisis of Romanticism

PART TWO.105 Belinskii and the Emergence of Realism

Memoirs

Introduction

PART ONE. Saint-Simon's Mémoires and the Rationalist Schema

PART TWO. Rousseau's Confessions and the Modifications of Personality

PART THREE. Herzen's My Past and Thoughts and Historical Identity

Problems of the Psychological Novel

PART ONE. Causal Conditionality

PART TWO. Direct Discourse

PART THREE. Ethical Valuation

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Translation of: O psikhologicheskoi proze.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-385) and index.

ISBN:

9786612751486

9781400802814

1400802814

9781400802821

1400802822

9781400811779

1400811775

9781282751484

1282751484

9781400820559

1400820553

OCLC:

707068788