Critical models, committed readers, and three Russian ideas -- Heroes and their plots -- Traditional narratives -- Western eyes on Russian realities : the eighteenth century -- The astonishing nineteenth century : romanticisms -- Realisms :...
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Critical models, committed readers, and three Russian ideas -- Heroes and their plots -- Traditional narratives -- Western eyes on Russian realities : the eighteenth century -- The astonishing nineteenth century : romanticisms -- Realisms : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov -- Symbolist and modernist world-building : three cities, three novels, and the devil -- The Stalin years : socialist realism, anti-fascist fairy tales, wilderness -- Coming to terms and seeking new terms : from the first Thaw (1956) to the end of the millennium. Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries of Russian literature. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives, the book proceeds chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each period