Rank and Style Russians in state service, life and literature

Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the essays focus on the interaction of life and literature. In the first part, Reyfman examines how obligatory state service and the T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reyfman, Irina (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press 2012.
Colección:Ars Rossika.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Writing, ranks, and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience
  • What makes a gentleman? : revisiting Gogol's Notes of a madman
  • Writing and the anxiety of rank : Pushkin's prose fiction
  • Pushkin the Kammerherr : on Pushkin's social reputation in the 1830s
  • Poetic justice and injustice : autobiographical echoes in Pushkin's The captain's daughter
  • Kammerjunker in Notes of a madman : Gogol's view of Pushkin
  • Death and mutilation at the dueling site : Pushkin's death as a national spectacle
  • The sixth tale of Belkin : Mikhail Zoshchenko as Proteus
  • Turgenev's Death and Tolstoy's Three deaths
  • Female voice and male gaze in Leo Tolstoy's Family happiness
  • Tolstoy and Gogol : Notes of a madman
  • Tolstoy the wanderer and the quest for adequate expression
  • Alexey Rzhevsky, Russian mannerist
  • Imagery of time and eternity in eighteenth-century Russian poetry : Mikhail Muravev and Semyon Bobrov
  • Dishonor by flogging and restoration by dancing : Leskov's response to Dostoevsky.