Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (Routledge Companions)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction: Russian literature    the first thousand years Neil Cornwell......Page 12
Old Russian literature and its heritage Robin Milner-Gulland......Page 23
Russian literature in the eighteenth century W. Gareth Jones......Page 36
Folklore and Russian literature Faith Wigzell......Page 47
Religious writing in post-Petrine Russia Ruth Coates......Page 60
Pre-revolutionary Russian theatre A.D.P. Briggs......Page 75
Pushkin: from Byron to Shakespeare David M. Bethea......Page 85
The Golden Age of Russian poetry Donald Rayfield......Page 100
The classic Russian novel Richard Freeborn......Page 112
The superfluous man in Russian literature Ellen Chances......Page 122
Nineteenth-century Russian thought and literature Derek Offord......Page 134
The Silver Age: Symbolism and Post-Symbolism Michael Basker......Page 147
Women's writing in Russia Catriona Kelly......Page 161
Russian literary theory: from the Formalists to Lotman Michael O'Toole......Page 174
Socialist realism in Soviet literature Katerina Clark......Page 185
Experiment and emigration: Russian literature, 1917  1953 Boris Lanin......Page 195
Russian poetry since 1945 G.S. Smith......Page 208
Post-revolutionary Russian theatre Birgit Beumers......Page 220
Thaws, freezes and wakes: Russian literature, 1953  1991 David Gillespie......Page 234
Post-Soviet Russian literature Alla Latynina and Martin Dewhirst......Page 245
Bibliography......Page 262
Index......Page 271