The Coherence of the Russian Classics
Essays on the Dynamics of Creativity
Published on 19. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-1-4331-9394-1 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative book presents some fundamentally new interpretations of the best-known and best-loved classics of Russian literature. It does so by applying to them the latest Western research on creativity and literary theory. Readers will come away from the book with an enhanced understanding of individual works by classic authors such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky as well as of the overall evolution of nineteenth-century Russian literature.
Reviews / Votes
"Curtis' interjection of Russian terms, together with their English translations, gives a very pleasant feeling to the book. And one gets the Slavic emotions when he translates such Russianisms as tser'kovnost' as 'churchiness.' When Curtis makes assertions or arguments it is never done with dogmatism - he rather invites discussion and argument."- Irwin Weil, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
10 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
406 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-9394-1 (9781433193941)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
09/2022
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€46.99
Available for download
E-Book
09/2022
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€46.99
Available for download
Person
Jim Curtis received his PhD from Columbia University and was professor of Russian literature at the University of Missouri-Columbia for 31 years. He is now Professor Emeritus of Russian. Dr. Curtis is the author of numerous books and essays, including Solzhenitsyn's Traditional Imagination and Stalin's Soviet Monastery.
Content
Preface - The Critical Legacy of the Twentieth Century and Russian Studies Today - Russia and Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Some General Remarks - The Biographical and Literary Contexts of the Russian Classic Writers - The Arrival Motif and the Monoplot of the Russian Classics - Metaphor is to Dostoyevsky as Metonymy is to Tolstoy - Why Are Russian Novels So Long? - A Proposed Periodization of Russian Literature, 1825- 1918 - Epilogue: The Heart of Russian Literature - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.