03961 am 22007093u 450 991025140650332120240214161319.01-61811-682-71-61811-127-210.1515/9781618116826(CKB)2550000000087096(EBL)3110440(SSID)ssj0000596107(PQKBManifestationID)12309066(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000596107(PQKBWorkID)10558328(PQKB)10842537(MiAaPQ)EBC3110440(DE-B1597)541013(OCoLC)1135580841(DE-B1597)9781618116826(Au-PeEL)EBL3110440(CaPaEBR)ebr10528131(CaONFJC)MIL546538(OCoLC)785776753(ScCtBLL)1da251b7-c53b-49f0-b502-3a1d69d0bfc7(EXLCZ)99255000000008709620110217d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEpic and the Russian novel[electronic resource] from Gogol to Pasternak /Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. RabinowitzBoston :Academic Studies Press,2011.1 online resource (240 pages)Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.Description based upon print version of record.1-936235-53-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-230) and index.Frontmatter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --PREFACE --1. Epic and Novel --2. Gogol in Rome --3. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov --4. Tolstoy and Homer --5. Doctor Zhivago and the Tradition of National Epic --6. Stalin and the Death of Epic: Mikhail Bakhtin, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak --Works Cited --IndexEpic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin's classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through readings of Gogol's Dead Souls-a uniquely problematic work, and one which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic-Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy's War and Peace, this book redefines "epic" and how we understand the sweep of Russian literature as a whole.Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.Russian fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismRussian fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEpic literature, RussianHistory and criticismAnthologiesRussian fictionHistory and criticism.Russian fictionHistory and criticism.Epic literature, RussianHistory and criticism.Anthologies.891.73/309Griffiths Frederick T183645Rabinowitz Stanley J905282National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Programfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910251406503321Epic and the Russian novel2024587UNINA