Title
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
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Description
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 migr 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 migr 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.
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ISBN
9780521875356, 9780521698047
Publication Date
Winter 3-28-2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
Cambridge
Keywords
Russian literature, 20th century, history and criticism, literary criticism
Recommended Citation
Balina, Marina and Dobrenko, Evgeny, "The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature" (2011). IWU Authors Bookshelf. 5.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bookshelf/5