The Coherence of the Russian Classics : Essays on the Dynamics of Creativity （2022. VIII, 278 S. 10 Abb. 225 mm）

Curtis, Jim

PETER LANG（2022発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 278 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781433193941

Full Description

This innovative book presents some fundamentally new interpretations of the best-known and best-loved classics of Russian literature. It does so by applying to them the latest Western research on creativity and literary theory. Readers will come away from the book with an enhanced understanding of individual works by classic authors such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky as well as of the overall evolution of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

Contents

Preface - The Critical Legacy of the Twentieth Century and Russian Studies Today - Russia and Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Some General Remarks - The Biographical and Literary Contexts of the Russian Classic Writers - The Arrival Motif and the Monoplot of the Russian Classics - Metaphor is to Dostoyevsky as Metonymy is to Tolstoy - Why Are Russian Novels So Long? - A Proposed Periodization of Russian Literature, 1825- 1918 - Epilogue: The Heart of Russian Literature - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.