Writing a Usable Past - Russian Literary Culture, 1917-1937

Informationen zum Autor ANGELA BRINTLINGER is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Ohio State University. She is the translator of Derzhavin by Vladislav Khodasevich and the coeditor of Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Klappentext Considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and emigre culture with the genre of biography. This title argues that in the years after the Revolution, Russian writers looked to the great literary figures of the past to help them construct a post-Revolutionary present. Zusammenfassung Considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and emigre culture with the genre of biography. This title argues that in the years after the Revolution! Russian writers looked to the great literary figures of the past to help them construct a post-Revolutionary present.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Brintlinger, Angela/ Morson Brintlinger
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2008
• EAN: 9780810125230
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2523-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Russian Literature; Studies in Russian Literature and Theory; Studies in Russian Literature; Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies