Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature

AvJonathan Stone

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Russian literature is most celebrated for its Romantic and modernist poetry and 19th-century novels. While literary traditions of varying sorts have been part of Slavic and Russian culture for over a millennium, it is only since the 18th century that they came to resemble literature from the West.The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres that have formed Russian Literature. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-03
Mått:160 x 234 x 29 mm
Vikt:608 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Scarecrow Press
ISBN:9780810871823

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Jonathan Stone is assistant professor of Russian and Russian studies at Franklin and Marshall College, where he also teaches in the comparative literature program.

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Russian literature has an illustrious history. This Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature strives to give the reader a grasp of that history. This valuable reference work opens with a year-by-year chronology starting with a sacred text introducing the written alphabet in ca.860 and ending in 2010 with Putin's proposal to compile a canon of 100 books that every Russian school child must read and be tested on. This chronology is followed by an extensive narrative essay that discusses Russian literature's evolution during various literary time periods, including the romantic era, modernist poetry, and nineteenth-century novels.The heavily cross-referenced historical dictionary deals with poetry, novels, historical narratives, philosophical writings, and dramas....There is an extensive bibliography organized around the historical eras found in the introductory narrative essay....A superb, well-written, interesting book. The scholar as well as the casual reader will certainly learn a great deal about one of the foundations of Russian literature.