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"In """"Writing a Usable Past"""", Brintlinger considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and emigre culture with the genre of biography. She argues that in the years after the Revolution, Russian writers looked to the great literary figures of the past to help them construct a post-Revolutionary present. Brintlinger looks at the biographical writing of Yuri Tynianov, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Mikhail Bulgakov, comparing their successful biography/ies to their failed attempts at biographies of Alexander Pushkin on the centennial anniversary of his death. Brintlinger argues that popular commemorations - exhibits, concerts, special issues of journals - were a more fitting biography than the genre of the 'usable past.'"

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Author:   Angela Brintlinger
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780810125230

ISBN 10:   0810125234
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Angela Brintlinger is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Ohio State University. She is the translator of Derzhavin by Vladislav Khodasevich and the coeditor of Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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