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Turgenev and Russian culture : essays to honour Richard Peace /

The present volume has as its central aim a reassessment of the works of Ivan Turgenev for the twenty-first century. Against the background of a decline in interest in nineteenth-century literature the articles gathered here seek to argue that the period in general, and his work in particular, still...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andrew, Joe, Offord, Derek, Reid, Robert, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.
Colección:Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 49.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Turgenev and Russian Culture; Contents; Richard Peace: An Appreciation; Introduction: Turgenev and Russian Culture; Death and the Maiden: Narrative, Space, Gender and Identity in Asia; 'The Poetry of Moscow Existence': An Analysis of N.M. Iazykov's Spring Night; Did Carmen really come from Russia (with a little helpfrom Turgenev)?; Turgenev and the Sphinx; A 'Buttoned-up' Hero of His Time: Turgenev's Use of the Language of Vestimentary Markers in Rudin; Mystical Union in the Philosophy of Vladimir Solovev; First Loves and Last Rites: from Ivan Turgenev to John Banville.
  • The Uses of Poetry in Turgenev's Prose: A Quiet Spot'The avant-garde, you know, can easily become the rearguard. All it takes is a change of direction.' Anatolii Efros' Production of A Month in the Country: A Dialogue with Stanislavskii.; Tolstoi: Great Men and the Mathematical Mechanics of History; Post-War British Month(s) in the Country; Worshipping the Golden Calf: the Intelligentsia's Conception of the Bourgeois World in the Age of Nicholas; The Dark Side of Turgenev; The Paradoxes of Parody: Notes on the Art of Mikhail Zoshchenko and Evgenii Popov.
  • Dulcis fumus patriae: Tiutchev, Turgenev and SmokeA Hunter's Sketches: A Peircean Perspective; Nostalgic Visions and Mnemonic Figures: Tsvetaeva'sAllusions to Ivan Turgenev's Goethian Outlook; Ivan Turgenev's Phantoms: The Spectre of Hesitation; Richard Peace's Publications: Compiled by Derek Offord.