The Cambridge Companion To Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Cambridge Companions To Literature)

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 cu...
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Edition Unstated edition (March 21, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780521698047
ISBN-13: 978-0521698047
ASIN: 0521698049
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
Amazon Rank: 2966030
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lopment, 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.