New book of interest

[David L. Cooper]

SUBJECT: New cultural history of Russian literature 

/Russian Literature/, by Andrew Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky, was published 
by Polity Press in 2009.

 

To tell the story of each period, the authors provide an introductory 
essay touching on the highpoints of its development and then concentrate 
on one biography, one literary or cultural event, and one literary work, 
which serve as prisms through which the main outlines of a given 
period's development can be discerned. Although the focus is on 
literature, individual works, lives and events are placed in broad 
historical context as well as in the framework of parallel developments 
in Russian art and music.

 

Table of Contents

 

    * Introduction
    * Chapter One. The Origins: Russian Medieval Culture
    * Chapter Two. The Spirit of Peter: Russian Culture in the
      Eighteenth Century
    * Chapter Three: The Spirit of Poetry: Russian Culture in the Age of
      Alexander I
    * Chapter Four: The Russian Idea: The Quest for National Identity in
      Nineteenth- Century Russian Culture
    * Chapter Five. Russian Psychology: The Quest for Personal Identity
      in Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture
    * Chapter Six. Life as Theatre: Russian Modernism
    * Chapter Seven: The Art of the Future: The Russian Avant-garde
    * Chapter Eight. The Future as Present: Soviet Culture
    * Chapter Nine. After the Future: Russian Thaw Culture
    * Chapter Ten: Instead of the Apocalypse: Russian Culture Today
    * Conclusion--Whither Russian Literature

 

You can order your copy via the Polity website, www.politybooks.com 
<http://www.politybooks.com/>, via this link: 
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745636856


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