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Self and Story in Russian History /

Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which Russians have defined themselves as private persons a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sandler, Stephanie, 1953-, Engelstein, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bakhtin, Lotman, Vygotsky, and Lydia Ginzburg on types of selves : a tribute / Caryl Emerson
  • The obverse of Stalinism : Akhmatova's self-serving charisma of selflessness / Alexander Zholkovsky
  • Writing the self in the Time of Terror : Alexander Afinogenov's Diary of 1937 / Jochen Hellbeck
  • Publicizing the Imperial image in 1913 / Richard Wortman
  • The silent movie melodrama : Evgenii Bauer fashions the heroine's self / Louise McReynolds
  • Girl talk : Lydia Charskaia and her readers / Susan Larsen
  • The Russian myth of Oscar Wilde / Evgenii Bershtein
  • Hysterical episodes : case histories and silent subjects / Cathy Popkin
  • Weber into Tkachi : on a Russian reading of Gerhart Hauptmann's play The weavers / Reginald E. Zelnik
  • Tolstoy's diaries : the inaccessible self / Irina Paperno
  • Storied selves : constructing characters in The Brothers Karamozov / William Mills Todd III
  • Self and sensibility in Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow : dialogism, relativism, and the moral spectator / Andrew Kahn
  • Enlightenment and tradition : the aestheticized life of an eighteenth-century provincial merchant / David L. Ransel
  • Personal testimony and the defense of faith : Skoptsy telling tales / Laura Engelstein.