LEADER 02533nam 22004093a 450 001 9910633947703321 005 20230629230826.0 010 $a1-64469-668-1 035 $a(CKB)4950000000289911 035 $a(OCoLC)1250411314 035 $a(ScCtBLL)ed3a19f8-33ab-471b-9dd3-29f2b4c7743b 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000289911 100 $a20211214i20212021 uu 101 0 $arus 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aThin Culture, High Art : $eGogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America /$fAnne Lounsbery 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cAcademic Studies Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (452 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary Western Rusistika 330 $aRussian-language edition: In Russia and America a perceived absence of literature gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack, not by disputing it but by insisting on it, by representing the nation's (putative) cultural deficit as a moral and aesthetic advantage. Through a comparative study of Gogol and Hawthorne, this book examines parallels that seem particularly striking when we consider that these traditions had virtually no points of contact. Yet the unexpected parallels between these authors are the result of historical similarities: Russians and Americans felt obliged to develop a manifestly national literature ex nihilo, and to do so in an age when an unprecedented diversity of printed texts were circulating among an ever more heterogeneous reading public. Responding to these conditions, Gogol and Hawthorne articulated ideas that would prove influential for their nations' literary development: that is, despite the culture's thinness and deviation from European norms, it would soon produce works that would surpass European literature in significance. 410 $aContemporary Western Rusistika 606 $aLiterary Criticism / American$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / American 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 700 $aLounsbery$b Anne$01256496 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910633947703321 996 $aThin Culture, High Art$92995314 997 $aUNINA