Thin Culture, High Art - Gogol, Hawthorne, Authorship in Nineteenth Century Russia America

Informationen zum Autor Anne Lounsbery is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Study in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. Klappentext In Russia and America! a perceived absence of literature gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack! not by disputing it but by insisting on it! by representing the nation's (putative) cultural deficit as a moral and aesthetic advantage. Zusammenfassung In the early 19th century a perceived absence of literature in Russia and America gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack by insisting on it. Through a comparative study of Gogol and Hawthorne, Lounsbery examines striking parallels.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Lounsbery, Lounsbery Anne
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780674023826
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02382-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature; Harvard Studies in Comparative; Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature; Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers