Russia's golden age / editor, Rachel Stauffer, Ferrum College, Southwestern Virginia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stauffer, Rachel, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights Russia's golden age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 267 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on 19th century Russian writing, traditionally referred to as the Golden Age of Russian literature. For readers who are studying it for the first time, several essays survey the critical conversation regarding this period, explore its cultural and historical contexts and offer close analytical and comparative reading of key texts. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the Golden Age of Russian literature can then move onto other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical and contextual approaches. Works that may be discussed include, among others, Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace and Anna Karenina, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers & Sons, Gogol's short works and Dead Souls, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

On Russia's golden age / Rachel Stauffer

Critical contexts. "My country is Russian literature" : history and literary development in the golden age / Kathleen Conti

How a canon is made : a critical response to Russia's golden age literature / Katya Jordan

The golden age of Russian poetry / Donald Rayfield

Nineteenth-century Russian thought and literature / Derek Offord

Critical readings. Pushkin : a monument to poetry / Helen Kashuba

Unseen beauty, shadows of liminal space, and the caustic passions of exile : the life and writings of M. Yu. Lermontov / Michael Marsh-Soloway

Romanticism, the Caucasus, and Russian orientalism / Rachel Stauffer

Nikolai Gogol's complex relationship with food : between romanticism and realism / Rachel Stauffer

Ivan Turgenev : an advocate of Russian realism / Frank Jacob

The life and times of Fyodor Dostoevsky : realism in the golden age / Tatyana Kovalevskaya

The old magician in search of truth : Lev Tolstoy's lifelong search for meaning / Ani Kokobobo

America reacts to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy : early archival evidence / Robert C. Evans and Matthew Shoemaker

"There is a way out" : The cherry orchard in the twenty-first century / Galina Rylkova

Russia 'musically' in the nineteenth century : questions of east and west / Anna G. Piotrowska.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781619252233

1619252236

OCLC:

877980680