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A fallen idol is still a god : Lermontov and the quandaries of cultural transition / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lermontov, Mikhail IUrevich, 1814-1841--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lermontov, Mikhail IUrevich.
- Lermontov, Mikhail IUrevich, 1814-1841. Geroi nashego vremeni.
- Romanticism--Russia.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Elucidates the historical distinctiveness and significance of the seminal nineteenth-century Russian poet, playwright, and novelist Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov (1814-1841). This book does so by demonstrating that Lermontov's works illustrate the condition of living in an epoch of transition.
- Contents:
- Cultural transition and its quandaries
- Romanticism and its twilight in Western Europe and Russia
- The ambivalence of influence : Lermontov's "not-Byronism"
- The attenuation of romantic evil : a demon undone
- Ideals to ideology : unmasking Masquerade
- Post-romantic anomie I : a Hero of our time and its hero
- Post-romantic anomie II : the "post-" scripts of A hero of our time
- Lermontov's last words.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6803-X
- 1-4356-0887-9
- OCLC:
- 290565445
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