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A History of Russian Literature (Paperback, New Ed)
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A History of Russian Literature (Paperback, New Ed)
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This magisterial work, written by one of the world's foremost
Slavic scholars, presents a survey of Russian literature from its
beginning in the eleventh century to modern times. Victor Terras
argues eloquently that Russian literature has reflected, defined,
and shaped the nation's beliefs and goals, and he sets his survey
against a background of social and political developments and
religious and philosophic thought. Terras traces a rich literary
heritage that encompasses Russian folklore of the eleventh,
twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, medieval literature that in
style and substance drew on the Byzantine tradition, and literature
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Russia passed
through a succession of literary schools-neoclassicism,
sentimentalism, romanticism, and realism-imported from the West.
Terras then moves on to the masterful realist fiction of Turgenev,
Dostoevsky, and Tolstoi during the second half of the nineteenth
century, showing how it was a catalyst for the social and cultural
advances following the reforms of Alexander II. In discussing the
period preceding the revolution of 1917, Terras links the literary
movements with parallel developments in the theater, music, and the
visual arts, explaining that these all placed Russia in the
forefront of European modernism. Terras divides Russian literature
after the revolution into emigre and Soviet writing, and he
demonstrates how the latter acted as a propaganda tool of the
Communist party. He concludes his survey with the dissident
movement that followed Stalin's death, arguing that the movement
again made literature a leader in the struggle for freedom of
thought, genuine relevance, and communion with Western culture.
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