Exotic Moscow under Western eyes /

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Author / Creator:	Masing-Delic, I. (Irene)
Imprint:	Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Cultural revolutions : Russia in the twentieth century Cultural revolutions.
Subject:	Russian literature -- History and criticism. National characteristics, Russian, in literature. Literature. National characteristics, Russian, in literature. Russian literature. Russia -- In literature. Russia. Electronic book. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121681

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ISBN:	9781618111364 1618111361 9781618118516 161811851X 9781934843406 1934843407
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary:	This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between "culture" and "civilization" and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is "barbaric." Another stance advocates the synthesis of "sense and sensibility" and the vision of "Apollo" and "Dionysus" creating a "civilized culture" together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers inherent in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago
Other form:	Print version: Masing-Delic, I. (Irene). Exotic Moscow under Western eyes. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781618118516

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Dialogue
The Music of Ecstasy and the Picture of Harmony: Nietzsche's Dionysus and Apollo in Turgenev's "Song of Triumphant Love"
A Change of Gender Roles: The Pygmalion Motif in Jane Austen's Emma and Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov
Clairvoyant Mothers and Erring Sons: Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Conrad's Under Western Eyes
Rescuing Culture from Civilization: Gorky, Gogl, Sologub and the Mediterranean Model
2. Inner Divisions
The "Castrator" Rogozhin and the "Castrate" Smerdiakov: Incarnations of Dostoevsky's 'Devil-Bearing' People?
Who are the Tatars in Alexander Blok's The Homeland? - The East in the Literary-Idealogical Discourse of Russian Symbolists
Gothic Historiosophy: The Pani Katerina Story in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
3. Saving the Heritage
Larissa - Lolita, or Catharsis and Dolor, in the Artist-Novels Doktor Zhivago and Lolita
Survival of the Superfluous: Doubling and Mimicry in Nabokov's Podvig-Glory
Moscow in the tropics: exotica in Valerii Briusov's Early Urban Poetry
Bibliography
Index

Exotic Moscow under Western eyes /

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