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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521875358 ISBN 13: 9780521875356

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.

About this title

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 the Author:

Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian at the University of Sheffield.

Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521875358
• ISBN 13: 9780521875356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Dobrenko Evgeny, Balina Marina