Women Writers in Russian Literature

by Toby W. Clyman, Diana Greene

Overview

Women Writers in Russian Literature presents a critical overview of Russian women writers from earliest times to the present, including emigre authors. Each of the 14 essays is by a scholar in a particular field; together, they cover all of Russian literature—from old Russia through the 18th and 19th centuries and up to the present—and include all genres: prose, poetry, drama, and autobiography. This collection examines images of women, and reintroduces Russian women writers whose recognition is long overdue. It also focuses on issues of reception and canon formation, and the relationship between gender and genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275949419
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/11/1994
Series:	Contributions to the Study of World Literature Series , #53
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

TOBY W. CLYMAN is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Albany. She has published studies on Chekhov, Gogol, Babel, and on Russian autobiography, and is the editor of A Chekhov Companion (Greenwood, 1985) and co-translator of P. M. Bitsilli's Chekhov's Art: A Stylistic Analysis (1983).

DIANA GREENE is an independent scholar who has written articles on feminist criticism of Russian literature, the Strugatsky brothers, Anastasiia Chebotarevskaia, and Karolina Pavlova. She is the author of Insidious Intent: Interpretations of Fedor Sologub's The Petty Demon (1986), and is currently working on a book on Karolina Pavlova.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Women in Old Russian Literature by Margaret Ziolkowski
Women as Performers of Oral Russian Literature: A Reexamination of Epic and Lament by Natalie Kononenko
The "Feminization" of Russian Literature: Women, Language and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Russia by Judith Vowles
Love, Work and the Woman Question in Mid Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing by Jane Costlow
Women's Prose Fiction in the Age of Realism by Mary F. Zirin
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: Critical Perception vs. Self-Definition by Diana Greene
Women Physicians' Autobiography in the Nineteenth Century by Toby W. Clyman
For the Good of the Cause: Women's Autobiography in the Twentieth Century by Beth Holmgren
Achievement and Obscurity: Women's Prose in the Silver Age by Charlotte Rosenthal
Women Poets of the Silver Age by Jane A. Taubman
Waiting in the Wings: Women Playwrights in the Twentieth Century by Melissa T. Smith
Paradigm Lost? Contemporary Women's Fiction by Helena Goscilo
Women's Poetry in the Soviet Union by Carol Ueland
Russian Women Writers in Emigré Literature by Marina Ledkovsky
Index