Lydia Ginzburg's Alternative Literary Identities - A Collection of Articles and New Translations (Paperback, New edition)

Known in her lifetime primarily as a literary scholar, Lydia Ginzburg (1902-1990) has become celebrated for a body of writing at the intersections of literature, history, psychology, and sociology. In highly original prose, she acted as a chronicler of the Soviet intelligentsia, a philosopher-cum-ethnographer of the Leningrad Blockade, and an author of powerful non-fictional narratives. She was a humanistic thinker with deep insights into psychological and moral dimensions of life and death in difficult historical circumstances. The first part of this book is a collection of essays by a distinguished set of scholars, shedding new light on Ginzburg's contributions to Russian literature and literary studies, life-writing, subjectivity, ethics, the history of the novel, and trauma studies. The second part is comprised of six works by Ginzburg that are being published for the first time in English translation. They represent a cross-section of her great themes, including Proustian notions of memory and place, the meaning of love and rejection, literary politics, ethnic and sexual identities, and the connections between personal biography and Soviet history. Both parts of the volume aim to explore, and make accessible to new readers, the gripping contribution to a broad set of disciplines by a profoundly intelligent writer and observer of her times.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas, 3
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Emily Van Buskirk • Andrei Zorin
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	441
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911350-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	3-03-911350-X
Barcode:	9783039113507

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