Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Ru
From Pushkin to Palisandriia: Essays on the Russian Novel in Honor of Richard Freeborn
✍ Scribed by Arnold McMillin (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 266
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Pushkin and the Novel....Pages 3-38
Geroi nashego vremeni as Emblematic Prose Text....Pages 39-51
‘The Analytical Genius’: Bednye liudi and the Russian Prose Tradition....Pages 52-69
Dumas and Dostoevskii — Deflowering the Camellia....Pages 70-82
Aspects of Novelistic Technique in Dostoevskii’s Besy....Pages 83-95
Dream and Fantasy in Goncharov’s Oblomov....Pages 96-111
No Smoke Without Fire: the Genesis of Turgenev’s Dym....Pages 112-127
Turgenev’s ‘Constancy’ in His Final Novel....Pages 128-148
The Prose of Anatolii Mariengof....Pages 149-167
Tynianov’s Smert’ Vazir-Mukhtara....Pages 168-180
Double Bill: Nabokov and Olesha....Pages 181-200
Soviet Responses to Doktor Zhivago....Pages 201-215
The Novel Approach of A. A. Zinov’ev....Pages 216-228
Aberration or the Future: The Avant-Garde Novels of Sasha Sokolov....Pages 229-243
Back Matter....Pages 245-255
✦ Subjects
Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature
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