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Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially
during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a
'fin-de-siecle' mood informed Russian literature long before the
chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had
significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some
chapters consider ideas more readily associated with fin-de-siecle
Europe such as degeneration theory, biodeterminism, Freudian
psychoanalysis or apocalypticism, alongside earlier Russian realist
texts by writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. Other
chapters explore the changes that realism underwent as modernism
emerged, examining later nineteenth-century or early
twentieth-century texts in the context of the earlier realist
tradition or their own cultural moment. Overall, a team of emerging
and established scholars of Russian literature and culture present
a wide range of creative and insightful readings that shed new
light on later realism in all its manifestations.
The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor
Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first
century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky's Russia. A
Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and
readers navigate the writer's fiction and his world, to better
understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which
Dostoevsky lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive
view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents
from Dostoevsky's own time (excerpts from his letters, his
journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well
as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevsky from the
contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a deeper
understanding of Dostoevsky's world and his writing, offering new
paths and directions for interpreting his writing.
Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially
during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a
'fin-de-siecle' mood informed Russian literature long before the
chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had
significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some
chapters consider ideas more readily associated with fin-de-siecle
Europe such as degeneration theory, biodeterminism, Freudian
psychoanalysis or apocalypticism, alongside earlier Russian realist
texts by writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. Other
chapters explore the changes that realism underwent as modernism
emerged, examining later nineteenth-century or early
twentieth-century texts in the context of the earlier realist
tradition or their own cultural moment. Overall, a team of emerging
and established scholars of Russian literature and culture present
a wide range of creative and insightful readings that shed new
light on later realism in all its manifestations.
The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor
Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first
century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky's Russia. A
Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and
readers navigate the writer's fiction and his world, to better
understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which
Dostoevsky lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive
view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents
from Dostoevsky's own time (excerpts from his letters, his
journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well
as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevsky from the
contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a deeper
understanding of Dostoevsky's world and his writing, offering new
paths and directions for interpreting his writing.
In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside - a literary
curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In
fact, its legacy is much more enduring, persisting within later
Russian literary movements. Writing Fear explores Russian
literature's engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices
of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these
practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings
through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation
during the modernist period. Bowers traces the development of
gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She
then investigates the hybrid genre's function in a series of case
studies focused on literary texts that address social and political
issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary
terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad
ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode
in the age of realism, Writing Fear challenges the conventional
literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.
Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth, Dostoevsky at 200:
The Novel in Modernity takes the writer's art - specifically the
tension between experience and formal representation - as its
central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky's works
are concerned with spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this
volume focuses instead on questions of design and narrative to
explore Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives.
Contributors situate Dostoevsky's formal choices of narrative,
plot, genre, characterization, and the novel itself within
modernity and consider how the experience of modernity led to
Dostoevsky's particular engagement with form. Conceived as a forum
for younger scholars working in new directions in Dostoevsky
scholarship, this volume asks how narrative and genre shape
Dostoevsky's works, as well as how they influence the way modernity
is represented. Of interest not only to readers and scholars of
Russian literature but also to those curious about the genre of the
novel more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its
approach to the question of Dostoevsky's contribution to the novel
as a form.
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