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Author Wachtel, Andrew.

Title Russian literature / Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2009.

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 Moore Stacks  PG2951 .W26 2009    Available  ---
Description xi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Cultural history of literature
Cultural history of literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-307) and index.
Contents Introduction: Labyrinth of links: Russian literature and its cultural contexts -- The origins: Russian Medieval culture -- The spirit of Peter: Russian culture in the eighteenth century -- The spirit of poetry: Russian culture in the age of Alexander I (1801-25) -- The Russian idea: the quest for national identity in nineteenth-century Russian culture -- Russian psychology: the quest for personal identity in nineteenth-century Russian culture -- Life as theatre: Russian modernism -- The art of the future: the Russian avant-garde -- The future as present: Soviet culture -- After the future: Russian thaw culture -- Instead of the apocalypse: Russian culture today -- Conclusion: whither Russian literature.
Subject Russian literature -- History and criticism.
Russian literature.
Literature and society -- Russia -- History.
Literature and society.
Russia.
History.
Added Author Vinit͡skiĭ, I. I͡U. (Ilʹi͡a I͡Urʹevich), 1969-
Other Form: Online version: Wachtel, Andrew. Russian literature. Cambridge [England] ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2009 (OCoLC)649076404
ISBN 9780745636863 paperback
9780745636856
0745636853
0745636861 paperback