Reference Guide to Russian Literature

by Neil Cornwell (Editor)

Overview

First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134260775
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1012
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note page, Advisers and Contributors, Alphabetical List of Writers and Works, Alphabetical List of Works, Chronological List of Writers, General Reading List, Chronology, Glossary, Introductory Essays, Old Russian Literature, Pre-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Russian Literature in the 18th Century, Aleksandr Pushkin: From Byron to Shakespeare, The Classic Russian Novel, The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature, Women’s Writing in Russia, Russian Literary Theory: From the Formalists to Lotman, Post-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Experiment and Emigration: Russian Literature, 1917 - 1953, Socialist Realism in Soviet Literature, Thaws, Freezes, and Wakes: Russian Literature, 1953 - 1991, Russian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period, Writers and Works, Title Index, Notes on Advisers and Contributors

Editorial Reviews

Cornwell's previous books on Russian literature (e.g., Essays on Vladimir Odoevs, Berghahn, 1997) make him well qualified to edit this fine guide to the major Russian writers. His team of 150 contributors, mostly from the British Isles and America, has prepared 1000-word entries for some 273 writers and 293 of their works. Critics, genres, and terms are excluded, as are works not written in Russian, e.g., Nabokov's Lolita. Author entries include telegraphic biographical sketches, detailed bibliographies of Russian- and English-language sources and critical studies, and, in many cases, 1000-word entries for specific novels, plays, and stories. There are alphabetical and chronological lists, 13 introductory essays on various aspects of Russian literature, and a Russian/English title index. The Handbook to Russian Literature (LJ 6/1/85) is more comprehensive than this new guide, which is, however, much more detailed in its coverage of writers and their works. Both books belong in every library that supports Russian literature studies.--Peter A. Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mt. Pleasant, MI

Library Journal

A wide-ranging guide to 273 of the main writers of Russian literature and to 293 of their best known works from the Kievan period to the post-communist writing of the Russian Federation, with a bias towards the 19th and 20th centuries and, to some extent, contemporary writers. The writer entries, alphabetically arranged in a two-column format, are approximately 1000 words long and consist of a biographical sketch plus a list of primary works in chronological order and grouped by genre where applicable, including translations into English, and a selected list of bibliographies and critical studies on the author. Some of the entries are accompanied by essays on individual works of literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"This imposing volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come...It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public." — Reference Reviews
"It is not only a work that many libraries will find essential for the collections, but it is something that many individual scholars will want to acquire for their personal reference collections as well." — College and Research Libraries
"Highly recommended for large public library and academic library collections." — Booklist/RBB
"Highly recommended for all libraries." — Choice

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