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Exotic Moscow under Western eyes /
This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between "culture" and "civilization" and the vision of Russia as the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cultural revolutions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The music of ecstasy and the picture of harmony : Nietzsche's Dionysus and Apollo in Turgenev's "Song of triumphant love"
- A change of gender roles : the Pygmalion motif in Jane Austen's Emma and Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov
- Clairvoyant mothers and erring sons : Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment and Conrad's Under Western eyes
- Rescuing culture from civilization : Gorky, Gogol, Sologub and the Mediterranean model
- The "castrator" Rogozhin and the "castrate" Smerdiakov : incarnations of Dostoevsky's 'devil-bearing' people?
- Who are the Tatars in Alexander Bolk's The homeland? : the East in the literary-ideological discourse of the Russian symbolists
- Gothic historiosophy : the Pani Katerina story in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
- Larissa-Lolita, or catharsis and dolor, in the artist-novels Doktor Zhivago and Lolita
- Survival of the superfluous: doubling and mimicry in Nabokov's Podvig-Glory
- Moscow in the tropics : exotica in Valerii Briusov's early urban poetry.