Russian Writers and the Fin de Siecle (eBook, PDF)

The Twilight of Realism
Redaktion: Bowers, Katherine

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Produktbeschreibung

Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a 'fin-de-siecle' mood informed Russian literature long before the chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some chapters consider ideas more readily associated with fin-de-siecle Europe such as degeneration theory, biodeterminism, Freudian psychoanalysis or apocalypticism, alongside earlier Russian realist texts by writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. Other chapters explore the changes that realism underwent as modernism emerged, examining later nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century texts in the context of the earlier realist tradition or their own cultural moment. Overall, a team of emerging and established scholars of Russian literature and culture present a wide range of creative and insightful readings that shed new light on later realism in all its manifestations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316382974
• Artikelnr.: 43075627

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the fin-de-siècle mood in Russian literature Ani Kokobobo and
Katherine Bowers; 1. The Russian Rougon-Macquart: degeneration and
biological determinism in The Golovlev Family Kate Holland; 2. The hiding
places of the self in Dostoevsky's Adolescent Yuri Corrigan; 3. A
childhood's garden of despair: Dostoevsky and 'The Boy at Christ's
Christmas Party' Robin Feuer Miller; 4. The railway and the elemental
force: Slavophilism, Pan-Slavism, and apocalyptic anxieties in Anna
Karenina Alexander Burry and S. Ceilidh Orr; 5. 'Mister Russian Beast':
civilization's discontents in Turgenev Emma Lieber; 6. Masculine
degeneration in Dostoevsky's Demons Connor Doak; 7. The burden of
superfluity: reconsidering female heroism in Chekhov's The Seagull Jenny
Kaminer; 8. The fall of the house: Gothic narrative and the decline of the
Russian family Katherine Bowers; 9. Corpses of desire and convention:
Tolstoy's and Artsybashev's grotesque realism Ani Kokobobo; 10. The little
man in the overcoat: Gogol and Krzhizhanovsky Muireann Maguire; 11. Icons,
eclipses and stepping off the train: Vladimir Korolenko and the Ocherk Jane
Costlow; 12. Decadent ecosystems in Uncle Vanya: a chorographic meditation
Thomas Newlin; 13. The mute body: Leonid Andreev's abject realism Edith W.
Clowes; 14. The thinking oyster: Turgenev's 'Drama of Dying' as the decay
of Russian realism Ilya Vinitsky; 15. An afterword on the potential of ends
Caryl Emerson; Bibliography.