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This book illuminates the connectedness of Dostoevsky's literary
art with his philosophical and psychological brilliance. Two Fyodor
Dostoevsky conferences originating at the University of North Texas
set the stage for this volume. Scholars contributed original papers
focusing on how Dostoevsky's literary art and philosophical
insights enrich one another. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote and thought
polyphonically. His polyphonic method is both his special literary
technique and his distinctive way of probing theological, social,
and philosophical depths. As Bakhtin and Terras suggest, all
Dostoevsky's major literary inventions from the underground man to
the vitriolic Grushenka are products of his ability to listen
profoundly to his own characters. Like the genius author-redactor
of 1 and 2 Samuel, he reports the heights and depths of human
emotion and behavior, whether exploring the anatomy of
dysfunctional families, making the heart soar with Zosima's vision
of forgiveness, or giving Ivan Karamazov full rein to challenge
theism. Dostoevsky's characters transform themselves into irregular
verbs whose fierce independence emerges only because of their
desperate and inescapable interdependence. His major characters are
text, subtext, and context for each other. They play inside each
other's head and answer in one way or another."
This edition of Pushkin's tragedy "Boris Godunov" is part of the
Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series. The series is
designed to meet the needs of the growinghigh school and
undergraduate market for texts in the Russian language. Each text
comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction
by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its
literary and cultural context
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.
This first encyclopedia of its kind in English covers ten centuries
of Russian literature and includes nearly 1,000 entries by leading
scholars. It will be an indispensable guide for students or the
general reader. "The Handbook is an Eden for browsers... a
dependable, illuminating guide."-Robert Taylor, Boston Globe "A
comprehensive survey in one volume of one of the world's richest
national literatures. The volume includes entries on authors,
genres, literary movements, and period studies, together with
reviews of notable journals. The lengthiest entries run to more
than 6,000 words, the shortest have been kept to a single
paragraph, giving the book value both for ready reference and as a
collection of history and criticism."-Booklist "The achievement
here is grand, the knowledge collected invaluable."-Theoharis C.
Theoharis, Christian Science Monitor "A vast and informative
compilation.... The magnificent panorama of Russian literature
accumulatively unfolds, from its ancient folklore and earliest
written texts... to our present century's structuralism, modernism,
and socialist realism."-Gordon McVay, Times Higher Education
Supplement "For anyone interested in Russian literature, this new
Handbook is the single most useful book to own."-J. Thomas Shaw,
Slavic and East European Journal "An indispensable source of
concise information for all students of literature for years to
come."-Ray Parrott, Philological Quarterly
This edition of Pushkin's tragedy "Boris Godunov" is part of the
Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series. The series is
designed to meet the needs of the growinghigh school and
undergraduate market for texts in the Russian language. Each text
comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction
by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its
literary and cultural context
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