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The archaeology of anxiety : the Russian Silver Age and its legacy /

The "Silver Age" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly established in the Russian cultural psyche, it continues to influence both literature and mass medi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rylkova, Galina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : anxiety and the Russian Silver Age
  • Literature and revolution : the case of Aleksandr Blok
  • The Russian Silver Age : its makers and undertakers
  • No "room of her own" : Anna Akhmatova's tenure in Soviet culture
  • The winged eavesdropper : Kuzmin and Nabokov
  • The Silver Age in translation : Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
  • Braving the thaw : Anna Akhmatova in the 1950s and the 1960s
  • The apocalypse revisited : Viktor Erofeev's Russian beauty
  • Coda : the Silver Age up close
  • Appendix: Original Russian texts.