For humanity's sake : the Bildungsroman in Russian culture /

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"For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cul...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Steiner, Lina, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Ruso
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Russian fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Roman russe > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Russes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Eastern.
Russian fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Culture (Obrazovanie, Bildung) and the Bildungsroman on Russian soil. Russian literature from the national awakening of the 1800s to the rise of Pochvennichestvo in the 1850s
  • Apollon Grigor'ev's theory of Russian culture
  • Yurii Lotman's idea of the 'semiosphere'
  • The semiospheric novel and the broadening of cultural self-consciousness
  • pt. II. Nineteenth-century Russian novels of emergence. Pushkin's quest for national culture : The captain's daughter as a Russian Bildungsroman
  • Educating Russia, building humanity : Tolstoy's War and peace
  • Dostoevsky on individual reform and national reconciliation : The adolescent
  • Appendix : the Russian texts.

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