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Memoirs and madness : Leonid Andreev through the prism of the literary portrait /

Memoirs and Madness examines memoir as a literary genre, investigates the creation of Leonid Andreev's posthumous legacy by his contemporaries, and explores the possibility that Andreev, Russia's leading literary figure at the beginning of the twentieth century, suffered from mental illnes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Frederick H., 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Ruso
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A Book About Leonid Andreev
  • Maksim Gorâ€?kii
  • Kornei Chukovskii
  • Aleksandr Blok
  • Georgii Chulkov
  • Boris Zaitsev
  • Nikolai Teleshov
  • Evgenii Zamiatin
  • Andrei Belyi
  • Leonid Andreev through the Prism of the Literary Portrait
  • 1 The Literary Portrait
  • 2 Projecting Personal Isolation
  • 3 “He is not with them, he is with us, he is oursâ€?: Belyi
  • 4 The Importance of Friendship and Sreda: Teleshov
  • 5 Creative Energy and Manic Episodes: Chukovskii
  • 6 Inner Turmoil and the Dark Side of Depression: Chulkov7 A Shared Sense of Chaos: Blok
  • 8 The Dreamer and the Mathematician: Gorâ€?kii
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index