Lina Steiner

For Humanity's Sake (eBook, PDF)

The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Positing the classic Russian novel as an inheritor of the Enlightenment's key values - including humanity, self-perfection, and cross-cultural communication - For Humanity's Sake offers a unique view of Russian intellectual history and literature.

SteinerLina:

Lina Steiner is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442696082
• Artikelnr.: 52787439

Autorenporträt

Lina Steiner is an academic advisor attached to the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Culture (Obrazovanie, Bildung) and the Bildungsroman on Russian
Soil
1. Russian Literature from the National Awakening of the 1800s to the Rise
of Pochvennichestvo in the 1850s
2. Apollon Grigor'ev's Theory of Russian Culture
3. Yurii Lotman's Idea of the "Semiosphere"
4. The Semiospheric Novel and the Broadening of Cultural Self-Consciousness
Part II: Nineteenth-Century Russian Novels of Emergence
5. Pushkin's Quest for National Culture: The Captain's Daughter as a
Russian Bildungsroman
6. Educating Russia, Building Humanity: Tolstoy's War and Peace
7. Dostoevsky on Individual Reform and National Reconciliation: The
Adolescent
Conclusion
Appendix: The Russian Texts
Notes
Bibliography
Index