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Poverty of the imagination : nineteenth-century Russian literature about the poor /
The primal scene of all nineteenth-century Western thought might well be the moment an observer gazed at someone poor, most commonly on the streets of a great metropolis, and wondered what the spectacle meant in human, moral, political, and metaphysical terms. In Russia, where so much of the populat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Studies in Russian literature and theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: poverty and imagination
- Expelled from the garden of poverty: sympathy and literacy in "Poor Liza"
- The call of poverty: learning to love the low in "Egyptian nights"
- The meaning of poverty: Gogol's Petersburg tales
- Gogol against sympathy
- "The poverty of our literature"
- By his poverty: Dostoevsky and the imitations of Christ
- Conclusion: the wealth of the Russian imaginations.