The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Marina Balina
ISBN: | 9780521698047 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 17 February, 2011 |
Format: | Paperback |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Marina Balina
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.
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