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Author Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951-2017.

Title A fallen idol is still a god : Lermontov and the quandaries of cultural transition / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.

Publication Info. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 286 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index.
Contents Cultural transition and its quandaries -- Romanticism and its twilight in Western Europe and Russia -- The ambivalence of influence : Lermontov's "not-Byronism" -- The attenuation of romantic evil : a demon undone -- Ideals to ideology : unmasking Masquerade -- Post-romantic anomie I : a Hero of our time and its hero -- Post-romantic anomie II : the "post-" scripts of A hero of our time -- Lermontov's last words.
Summary Elucidates the historical distinctiveness and significance of the seminal nineteenth-century Russian poet, playwright, and novelist Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov (1814-1841). This book does so by demonstrating that Lermontov's works illustrate the condition of living in an epoch of transition.
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Subject Lermontov, Mikhail I͡Urʹevich, 1814-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lermontov, Mikhail I͡Urʹevich, 1814-1841.
Criticism and interpretation.
Lermontov, Mikhail I͡Urʹevich, 1814-1841. Geroĭ nashego vremeni.
Lermontov, Mikhail IUrevich, 1814-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lermontov, Mikhail IUrevich, 1814-1841. Geroi nashego vremeni -- Criticism and interpretation.
Geroĭ nashego vremeni (Lermontov, Mikhail I͡Urʹevich)
Romanticism -- Russia.
Romanticism.
Russia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951- Fallen idol is still a god. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006023423
ISBN 9781435608870 (electronic book)
1435608879 (electronic book)
0804753709 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804753708 (cloth ; alkaline paper)