"On the whole, the volume reads like a cohesive book ... and
maintains a high standard of scholarship throughout. Investigators
of Russian literary demonism in the future will surely want to
consult this excellent work." . The Russian Review
..". this collection displays a degree of mutual collaboration,
as well as a consistently high quality, that surpasses that of most
collections of essays ... it has much to praise and little to
fault." . Slavic Review
"It will become a valuable reference for undergraduates and
postgraduates in the Slavic and Comparative Literature fields." .
Australian and East European Studies
"The scholarly excellence of individual contributions and the
high standard that marks the constituent articles without exception
... this volume is well thought out in conception and every effort
appears to have been made by the editor to give it methodological
cohesion. No doubt will it become a valuable reference for
undergraduates and postgraduates in Slavic and Comparative
Literature fields." . Australian Slavonic and East European
Studies
Merezhkovsky's bold claim that "all Russian literature is, to a
certain degree, a struggle with the temptation of demonism" is
undoubtedly justified. And yet, despite its evident centrality to
Russian culture, the unique and fascinating phenomenon of Russian
literary demonism has so far received little critical attention.
This substantial collection fills the gap. A comprehensive
analytical introduction by the editor is follwed by a series of
fourteen essays, written by eminent scholars in their fields. The
first part explores the main shaping contexts of literary demonism:
the Russian Orthodox and folk tradition, the demonization of
historical figures, and views of art as intrinsically demonic. The
second part traces the development of a literary tradition of
demonism in the works of authors ranging from Pushkin and
Lermontov, Gogol and Dostoevsky, through to the poets and prose
writers of modernism (including Blok, Akhmatova, Bely, Sologub,
Rozanov, Zamiatin), and through to the end of the 20th century.
Pamela Davidson is Professor of Russian Literature at the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College,
London.
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