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Chekhov's children : context and text in late Imperial Russia / Nadya L. Peterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Nadezhda L., 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Characters.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Children in literature.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Canada : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Chekhov's Children explores Anton Chekhov's stories - dating from his early writings in the 1880s - as a distinct body of work unified by the theme of maturation and by the creation of a literary model of childhood.
- Contents:
- Cover
- CHEKHOV'S CHILDREN
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE CHILD IN CHEKHOV'S TIME
- 1 The Child Imagined: The Literary Canon
- 2 The Humanization Project: Pro/Contra
- 3 The Child Examined: Pedagogical Psychology
- PART TWO THE CHILD IN CHEKHOV
- 4 The Emergence of Language: The Writer and the Child
- 5 The Child's Text
- 6 Kids at Play
- 7 Farewell to Childhood: The Steppe
- 8 The Afterchildhood
- 9 Conclusion: The Anxiety of Ignorance
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780228007661
- 0228007666
- 9780228007654
- 0228007658
- OCLC:
- 1245488268
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