LEADER 02950nam 2200457 450 001 9910476783603321 005 20230511215633.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000566676 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000566676 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000566676 100 $a20230511d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEpic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak /$fFrederick T. Griffiths, Stanley J. Rabinowitz 210 1$aBoston, Massachusetts :$cAcademic Studies Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history 311 $a1-61811-922-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 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 -- Works Cited -- INDEX. 330 $aEpic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Luka?cs-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin's classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through readings of Gogol's Dead Souls-a uniquely problematic work, and one which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic-Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy's War and Peace, this book redefines "epic" and how we understand the sweep of Russian literature as a whole. 410 0$aStudies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history. 606 $aEpic literature, Russian$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRussian fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRussian fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEpic literature, Russian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRussian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRussian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891.71009 700 $aGriffiths$b Frederick T.$0183645 702 $aRabinowitz$b Stanley J. 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476783603321 996 $aEpic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak$93362924 997 $aUNINA