Russian Literature and Empire - Conquest of the Caucasus From Pushkin to Tolstoy

Zusammenfassung The first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Map; 1. Introduction; 2. The poet and terra incognita; 3. Imaginative geography; 4. Sentimental pilgrims; 5. The national stake in Asia; 6. The Pushkinian mountaineer; 7. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's interchange with the tribesman; 8. Early Lermontov and oriental machismo; 9. Little orientalizers; 10. Feminizing the Caucasus; 11. Georgia as an oriental woman; 12. The anguished poet in uniform; 13. Tolstoy's revolt against romanticism; 14. Post-war appropriation of romanticism; 15. Tolstoy's confessional indictment; 16. Concluding observations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Susan Layton, Susan (Institut D''etudes Slaves Layton
• Con la collaborazione di: Anthony Cross (Editore), Anthony Professor Cross (Editore), Catriona Kelly (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521020015
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02001-5
• Pagine: 372
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Russian L; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica slava