Life Is Elsewhere - Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces 1800-1917

Anne Lounsbery teaches Russian literature at New York University. She has published numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature and is the author of Thin Culture, High Art.

Summary

In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has...

Product details

• Authors: Anne Lounsbery
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2019
• EAN: 9781501747915
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4791-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000