{"product_id":"russian-literature-paperback-softback-9780745636863","title":"Russian Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745636863","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRussian Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Baruch Wachtel (Author), Ilya Vinitsky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745636863, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A notable contributino to existing pedagogical and research resources … providing a thorough, engaging overview of Russian literature from its beginnings to the present.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlavic and East European Journal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The authors accomplish a rare tour de force: in remarkably few pages readers are exposed to the entire sweep of Russian literary culture, not as a summary but as an intellectual commentary on a great world literature. A terrific book for students and general readers alike.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"An adventurous and provocative meditation on Russian literary history that throws unexpected new light on apparently familiar figures, as well as introducing new writers, new connections, and a new sense of context. Wachtel and Vinitsky’s account of Russian literature gives proper emphasis to the pre-Petrine era and the eighteenth century, as well as the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but is much more than a standard potted history. They are able to emphasise large themes, such as the role of literature in the rise of nationalism, and at the same time to search out striking and offbeat examples from sources such as unpublished memoirs. Their book is one of the most original and stimulating accounts of the subject to appear in any language.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eCatriona Kelly, New College, Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"To transmit the evolving spirit of a culture takes as much magic as chronology, and this mesmerizing volume delivers the best of all worlds. At flashpoints over a thousand years, select persons, artworks, and events are triangulated into miniature stories, each alive with human faces at thrilling creative risk.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eCaryl Emerson, Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This readable, challenging book fills a serious gap in our studies of Russian literature: it covers the entire history of writing on Russian soil and it does so as proper history, with well argued theses about the development of this literature in cultural context, taking culture in both aesthetic and anthropological senses of the word. Fresh, persuasive readings illuminate each of the dozen chapters.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWilliam Mills Todd, Harvard College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps \u003ci\u003eMaster and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDoctor Zhivago\u003c\/i\u003e from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, are almost completely \u003ci\u003eterra incognita\u003c\/i\u003e, as are the complex prose experiments of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Leskov, Andrei Belyi, and Andrei Platonov. Furthermore, those writers who have made an impact are generally known outside of the contexts in which they wrote and in which their work has been received.  \u003cp\u003eIn this engaging book, Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky provide a comprehensive, conceptually challenging history of Russian literature, including prose, poetry and drama. Each of the ten chapters deals with a bounded time period from medieval Russia to the present. In a number of cases, chapters overlap chronologically, thereby allowing a given period to be seen in more than one context. To tell the story of each period, the authors provide an introductory essay touching on the highpoints of its development and then concentrate on one biography, one literary or cultural event, and one literary work, which serve as prisms through which the main outlines of a given period?s development can be discerned. Although the focus is on literature, individual works, lives and events are placed in broad historical context as well as in the framework of parallel developments in Russian art and music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Labyrinth of Links: Russian Literature and its Cultural Contexts 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Origins: Russian Medieval Culture 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Spirit of Peter: Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Spirit of Poetry: Russian Culture in the Age of Alexander I (1801–25) 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Russian Idea: The Quest for National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Russian Psychology: The Quest for Personal Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Life as Theatre: Russian Modernism 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Art of the Future: The Russian Avant-Garde 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Future as Present: Soviet Culture 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 After the Future: Russian Thaw Culture 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Instead of the Apocalypse: Russian Culture Today 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Whither Russian Literature 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 308\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475007238424,"sku":"9780745636863","price":21.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745636863.jpg?v=1785803440","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/russian-literature-paperback-softback-9780745636863","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}