Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Catriona Kelly |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 2001-08-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780192801449 |
This text explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture and aims to answer the questions: How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? and What shaped its creation?
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Catriona Kelly |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2001-08-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191577502 |
This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Catriona Kelly |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2001-08-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192801449 |
This text explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture and aims to answer the questions: How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? and What shaped its creation?
Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Russian History: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Hosking |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199580987 |
A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.
Chinese Literature
Title | Chinese Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sabina Knight |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2012-02-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 019539206X |
This book tells the story of Chinese literature, from prehistory to the present, in terms of literary culture's key role in supporting social and political concerns. A welcome guide for teachers, students, and lay readers, Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction honours traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy, as well as the evolution of poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel.
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Caryl Emerson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2008-07-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139471686 |
Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period. Fully accessible to students and readers with no knowledge of Russian, the volume includes a glossary and pronunciation guide of key Russian terms as well as a list of useful secondary works. The book will be of great interest to students of Russian as well as of comparative literature.
The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Title | The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | S. A. Smith |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2002-02-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191578363 |
This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole—on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of politics, but situates political developments firmly in the context of massive economic, social, and cultural change. Since the fall of Communism there has been much reflection on the significance of the Russian Revolution. The book rejects the currently influential, liberal interpretation of the revolution in favour of one that sees it as rooted in the contradictions of a backward society which sought modernization and enlightenment and ended in political tyranny. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.