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Russian literature : a brief insight / Catriona Kelly.

by Kelly, Catriona.

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Sterling Pub. Co., 2010.

Russian literature -- History and criticism.

9781402775413 (hc.)

1402775415 (hc.)

Illustrated ed.

204 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Testament -- "I have raise myself a monument" : Writer memorials and cults -- "Tidings of me will go out over all great Rus" : Pushkin and the Russian Literary Canon -- "I shall be famous as long as another poet lives" : Writers' responses to Pushkin -- "Awakening noble feelings with my lyre" : Writers as "Masters of Minds" -- "And don't dispute with fools" : Men, women, and society -- "Every tribe and every tongue will name me" : Russian literature and "Primitive Culture" -- "O muse, be obedient to the command of God" : The spiritual and material world.

A series of concise, engrossing, and enlightening books that explore every subject under the sun with unique insight. Rather than presenging a conventional chronology of Russian literature, this book considers the place and importance of all kinds of literature in Russian culture. Catriona Kelly focuses on Pushkin -- considered "the Russian Shakespeare" -- whose work influenced all Russian writers, whether poets or novelists, as well as artists in other fields.

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