Russian Montparnasse
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-50800-3 (ISBN)
Maria Rubins teaches Russian and Comparative literature at University College London, UK. She has published extensively on Russian literature, Franco-Russian cultural relations, exile, Russian émigré literature, bilingual and transnational writing, and contemporary Francophone fiction. She is the author of Ecphrasis in Parnasse and Acmeism: Comparative Visions of Poetry and Poetics (2000), editor of reference editions and annotated volumes of Russian émigré prose, and translator into Russian of French and English authors, including Irène Némirovsky, Judith Gautier and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Introduction: Russian Montparnasse as a Transnational Community PART I: NARRATING THE SELF: THE EXISTENTIAL CODE OF INTER-WAR LITERATURE 1. In the 'Waste Land' of Postwar Europe: Facing the Modern Condition 2. Who Needs Art? The Human Document and Strategies of Self-Representation 3. Human Document or Autofiction? PART II: READING AND WRITING THE 'PARIS TEXT' 4. 'A Shared Homeland for All Foreigners': The Paris Myth. 5. An Illusory City: Denationalization and the 'Mission' of the Diaspora 6. Below and Beyond: Alternative Paris PART III: CHALLENGES OF THE JAZZ AGE 7. Post-Traumatic Hedonism 8. Art Deco Fiction 9. Anthologizing the Jazz Age: Gaito Gazdanov's The Spectre of Alexander Wolf PART IV: THE CANON RE-DEFINED: READING THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS IN PARIS 10. 'A third-rate rhymer ... but a poet of genius': Lermontov and Russian Montparnasse 11. 'Backyard' Literature: Vasily Rozanov's Unlikely Posthumous Fame in Paris and Beyond 12. Dialogue with Tolstoy Conclusion Bibliography Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature |
Zusatzinfo | 6 Illustrations, black and white; X, 302 p. 6 illus. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
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ISBN-10 | 1-137-50800-0 / 1137508000 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-50800-3 / 9781137508003 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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