Literary biographies in The lives of remarkable people series in Russia : biography for the masses / edited by Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland

Published:: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
Physical Description:: x, 339 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Trigos, Ludmilla A. and Ueland, Carol

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Series:

Crosscurrents--Russia's literature in context

Contents:

Introduction: Writing and re-writing the literary canon: a history of Russian biography in the Lives of Remarkable People Series / Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland -- The remarkable Pushkin / Angela Brintlinger -- Larger than life: the meaning of Griboedov in Russian national biography / Catherine O'Neil -- N.V. Gogol, biographer's conundrum / Ludmilla A. Trigos -- Remarkable Tolstoy, from the age of the tsars to the Putin era / Caryl Emerson -- Per aspera ad astra: the remarkable lives of Fyodor Dostoevsky / Alexander Spektor -- Searching for the "real" Chekhov: approaches and appropriations / Radislav Lapushin -- From idol to villain and (almost) back: Gorky as editor and subject of Lives of Remarkable People / Irene Masing-Delic -- Alexander Blok as the model modernist / Jonathan Stone -- Narrating eccentricity: The ZhZL biographies of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva / Alexandra Smith -- Mikhail Bulgakov: refractions of a writer's life / J.A.E. Curtis -- Between biography and mythology: the Russian and American lives of Joseph Brodsky / Carol Ueland.

Summary:

"This book examines the role that the legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, plays in Russian culture. The contributors examine the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narratives, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of censorship"--

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ISBN:

9781793618290 hardcover
1793618291 hardcover

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Endowment Note:

George K. and Anna I. Yonchuk and John G., Sr. and Agnes A. Yonchuk Libraries Endowment in Russian Studies

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