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Record Nr.

UNISA996218162803316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century Russian literature / / edited by Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-80162-7

0-511-97580-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to literature

Classificazione

LIT004130

Disciplina

891.709004

Soggetti

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface / Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina -- 1. Poetry of the Silver Age / Boris Gasparov -- 2. Prose between Symbolism and Realism / Nikolai Bogomolov -- 3. Poetry of the Revolution / Andrew Kahn -- 4. Prose of the Revolution / Boris Wolfson -- 5. Utopia and the novel after the Revolution / Philip Ross Bullock -- 6. Socialist Realism / Evgeny Dobrenko -- 7. Poetry after 1930 / Stephanie Sandler -- 8. Russian epic novels of the Soviet period / Katerina Clark -- 9. Soviet prose after Stalin / Marina Balina -- 10. Post-Soviet literature between Realism and Postmodernism / Mark Lipovetsky -- 11. Exile and Russian literature / David Bethea and Siggy Frank -- 12. Drama and theatre / Birgit Beumers -- 13. Literature and film / Julian Graffy -- 14. Literary policies and institutions / Maria Zalambani -- 15. Russian critical theory / Caryl Emerson.

Sommario/riassunto

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and



émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.