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Russian literature : a very short introduction /

This text explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture and aims to answer the questions: How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? and What shaped its creation?

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelly, Catriona
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Series:Very short introductions ; 53.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Testament
  • 'I have raised myself a monument' : writer memorials and cults
  • 'Tidings of me will go out over all great Rus' : Pushkin and the Russian literary canon
  • 'I shall be famous as long as another poet lives' : writers' responses to Pushkin
  • 'Awakening noble feelings with my lyre' : writers as 'masters of minds'
  • 'And don't dispute with fools' " men, women, and society
  • 'Every tribe and every tongue will name me' : Russian literature and 'primitive culture'
  • 'O muse, be obedient to the command of God' : the spiritual and material worlds.