LEADER 03907 am 22006973u 450 001 996328045503316 005 20230725060053.0 010 $a1-61811-682-7 010 $a1-61811-127-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618116826 035 $a(CKB)2550000000087096 035 $a(EBL)3110440 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000596107 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12309066 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000596107 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10558328 035 $a(PQKB)10842537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110440 035 $a(DE-B1597)541013 035 $a(OCoLC)1135580841 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618116826 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110440 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10528131 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL546538 035 $a(OCoLC)785776753 035 $a(ScCtBLL)1da251b7-c53b-49f0-b502-3a1d69d0bfc7 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000087096 100 $a20110217d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEpic and the Russian novel$b[electronic resource] $efrom Gogol to Pasternak /$fFrederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz 210 $aBoston $cAcademic Studies Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-936235-53-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 218-230) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $t1. Epic and Novel -- $t2. Gogol in Rome -- $t3. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov -- $t4. Tolstoy and Homer -- $t5. Doctor Zhivago and the Tradition of National Epic -- $t6. Stalin and the Death of Epic: Mikhail Bakhtin, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aEpic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin's classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through readings of Gogol's Dead Souls-a uniquely problematic work, and one which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic-Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy's War and Peace, this book redefines "epic" and how we understand the sweep of Russian literature as a whole. 410 0$aStudies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history. 606 $aRussian fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRussian fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEpic literature, Russian$xHistory and criticism 608 $aAnthologies$2lcgft 615 0$aRussian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRussian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEpic literature, Russian$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891.73/309 700 $aGriffiths$b Frederick T$0183645 701 $aRabinowitz$b Stanley J$0905282 712 02$aNational Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996328045503316 996 $aEpic and the Russian novel$92024587 997 $aUNISA