The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521698049 ISBN 13: 9780521698047

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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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Review:

'This Cambridge Companion features a stellar line-up of senior scholars surveying subfields that they not only have led, but sometimes also invented ... All fifteen chapters are well-written, informative and authoritative.' Robert Bird, Slavonic and East European Review

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521698049
• ISBN 13: 9780521698047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Dobrenko Evgeny