Terrible Perfection - Women and Russian Literature

a pleasure to read." -Slavic Review

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Fictions of Russian Men

1. The Russian Heroine: Where to Find Her and Where Not to

2. Misogny and the Power of Silence

3. Tolstoy's Path toward Feminism

4. Woman Is Everywhere Passive: Chekhov and the Century's End

Part II. Women's Autobiography in Russia

5. Public and Private Lives

6. Mothers and Daughters

7. The Emerging Writer

Part III. Women's Poetry in Russia

8. From Folklore through the Nineteenth Century

9. Four Modern Women Poets

Conclusions....and Continuations

Notes

Index

About the author

Barbara Heldt

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Heldt
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1987
• EAN: 9780253358387
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35838-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies