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Russian Literature
Andrew Baruch Wachtel
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Description for Russian Literature
Hardback. For 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 Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 330 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
For 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 Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago 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 terra incognita, 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 ... Read more
For 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 Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago 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 terra incognita, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Series
Polity Cultural History of Literature
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745636856
SKU
V9780745636856
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About Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Andrew Baruch Wachtel is Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in Humanities at Northwestern University. Ilya Vinitsky is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Russian Literature
"A notable contributino to existing pedagogical and research resources … providing a thorough, engaging overview of Russian literature from its beginnings to the present." Slavic and East European Journal "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 ... Read more