Poverty of the imagination : nineteenth-century Russian literature about the poor /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herman, David, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.
Series:Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Poor in literature.
Poverty in literature.
Littérature russe > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Pauvres dans la littérature.
Pauvreté dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Poor in literature
Poverty in literature
Russian literature
Russisch.
Letterkunde.
Armoede.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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