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Author Griffiths, Frederick T

Title Epic and the Russian novel : from Gogol to Pasternak / Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Published Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Series Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Epic and Novel -- 2. Gogol in Rome -- 3. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov -- 4. Tolstoy and Homer -- 5. Doctor Zhivago and the Tradition of National Epic -- 6. Stalin and the Death of the Epic: Mikhail Bakhtin, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak -- Index
Summary "Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin's classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through readings of Gogol's Dead Souls--a uniquely problematic work, and one which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic--Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy's War and Peace, this book redefines "epic."
Analysis Arts
Literary Criticism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-230) and index
Notes This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
English
Subject Russian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Epic literature, Russian -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Epic literature, Russian
Russian fiction
Rysk skönlitteratur -- historia -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet.
Epik -- historia -- Ryssland.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Rabinowitz, Stanley J
ISBN 9781618111272
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9781618116826
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