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The Russian Memoir : History and Literature / edited and with an introduction by Beth Holmgren.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Series
- Studies in Russian literature and theory
- Studies in Russian literature and theory The Russian memoir
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self in literature.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Autobiography.
- Russian prose literature--History and criticism.
- Russian prose literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxix, 221 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays map the aesthetic form and social and political functions of the memoir in modern Russian culture.
- Contents:
- Lidiia Ginzburg : images of the intelligentsia / Jane Gary Harris
- The stuffed shirt unstuffed : Zabolotsky's "Early years" and the complexity of Soviet culture / Sarah Pratt
- The italics are hers : matrophobia and the family romance in Elena Bonner's "Mothers and daughters" / Helena Goscilo
- Accommodating consumers' desires : Elʹdar Riazanov's memoirs in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia / Alexander Prokhorov
- The canonization of Dolgorukaia / Gitta Hammarberg
- Art and Prostokvasha : Avdotʹia Panaeva's work / Jehanne Gheith and Beth Holmgren
- The art of memory : cultural reverence as political critique in Evgeniia Ginzburg's writing of The Gulag / Natasha Kolchevska
- English as sanctuary : Nabokov's and Brodsky's autobiographical writings / Galya Diment
- The tale of bygone years : reconstructing the past in the contemporary Russian memoir / Marina Balina.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 206-209) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-2177-8
- OCLC:
- 798298301
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