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The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literature from various critical perspectives. They will whet the appetite of readers interested in penetrating beyond the canonical texts of Russian literature. The introduction focuses on the central issues and key problems of current autobiographical theory and practice in both the West and in the Soviet Union, while each essay treats an aspect of auto-biographical praxis in the context of an individual author's work and often in dialogue with another of the included writers. Examined here are first the experimental writings of the early years of the twentieth century--Rozanov, Remizov, and Bely; second, the unique autobiographical statements of the mid-1920s through the early 1940s--Mandelstam, Pasternak, Olesha, and Zoshchenko; and finally, the diverse and vital contemporary writings of the 1960s through the 1980s as exemplified not only by creative writers but also by scholars, by Soviet citizens as well as by emigrs--Trifonov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Lydia Ginzburg, Nabokov, Jakobson, Sinyavsky, and Limonov. Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Author:   Jane Gary Harris
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   1050
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9780691637679

ISBN 10:   0691637679
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION. Diversity of Discourse: Autobiographical Statements in Theory and Praxis, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. Rozanov and Autobiography: The Case of Vasily Vasilievich, pg. 36*CHAPTER 2. Alexey Remizov's Later Autobiographical Prose, pg. 52*CHAPTER 3. Andrey Bely's Memories of Fiction, pg. 66*CHAPTER 4. Autobiography and History: Osip Mandelstam's Noise of Time, pg. 99*CHAPTER 5. Boris Pasternak's Safe Conduct, pg. 114*CHAPTER 6. The Imagination of Failure: Fiction and Autobiography in the Work of Yury Olesha, pg. 123*CHAPTER 9 Yury Trifonov's The House on the Embankment. Fiction or Autobiography?, pg. 172*CHAPTER 10. The Rhetoric of Nadezhda Mandelstam's Hope Against Hope, pg. 193*CHAPTER 11. Lydia Ginzburg and the Fluidity of Genre, pg. 207*CHAPTER 12. Roman Jakobson: The Autobiography of a Scholar, pg. 217*CHAPTER 13. In Search of the Right Milieu: Eduard Limonov's Kharkov Cycle, pg. 227*CHAPTER 14. Literary Selves: The Tertz-Sinyavsky Dialogue, pg. 238*Select Bibliography, pg. 261*Index, pg. 279*Studies of the Harriman Institute, pg. 288

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