The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

NOTE EDITORE

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

SOMMARIO

Preface Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina; 1. Poetry of the Silver Age Boris Gasparov; 2. Prose between Symbolism and Realism Nikolai Bogomolov; 3. Poetry of the Revolution Andrew Kahn; 4. Prose of the Revolution Boris Wolfson; 5. Utopia and the novel after the Revolution Philip Ross Bullock; 6. Socialist Realism Evgeny Dobrenko; 7. Poetry after 1930 Stephanie Sandler; 8. Russian epic novels of the Soviet period Katerina Clark; 9. Soviet prose after Stalin Marina Balina; 10. Post-Soviet literature between Realism and Postmodernism Mark Lipovetsky; 11. Exile and Russian literature David Bethea and Siggy Frank; 12. Drama and theatre Birgit Beumers; 13. Literature and film Julian Graffy; 14. Literary policies and institutions Maria Zalambani; 15. Russian critical theory Caryl Emerson.

PREFAZIONE

The Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literature, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

AUTORE

Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian at the University of Sheffield.Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780521698047
• Collana: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Dimensioni: 230 x 15 x 155 mm Ø 520 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 328