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Subject(s)

• Russian fiction—History and criticism [Browse]
• Novelists, Russian [Browse]

Editor

• Buckler, Julie A. [Browse]
• Weir, Justin [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks

Summary note

"The Russian novel is a distinctive tradition by virtue of its formal eccentricities, as well as the boldness with which these works approached the most complex philosophical, political, and moral questions. This Oxford Handbook brings together top specialists in Russian literature to treat the Russian novel from the late 18th to the 21st century, using a range of interpretive perspectives. We treat well-known works and authors but also explore the much broader tradition of the Russian novel up to the present. The essays in the Handbook provide cultural and historical perspectives on the Russian novel, as well as showcasing emergent modes of analysis, including postcolonialism, ecocriticism, and posthumanism. We consider the Russian novel not only within Russia itself, but in the world, beginning with the first translations of novels from Russian to French and English in the late nineteenth century, and eventually to numerous other languages and cultural contexts. We treat Russophone novels by émigré writers, first in European capitals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then extending more recently to the U.S., Israel, and beyond. This Handbook also considers the political and cultural significance of Russophone novels within the independent states that had been territories of the former Soviet Union and used Russian as a compulsory lingua franca"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• First novels, first publics / Luba Golburt and Bella Grigoryan
• Russian novelists and the mind of Europe / Lina Steiner
• The noncanonical status of the nineteenth-century Russian novel / William Mills Todd III
• The Russian novel in the age of modernism / Julie Curtis
• The Soviet novel as a work of grief / Evgeny Dobrenko
• The postmodernist Russian novel : an attempt at typology / Mark Lipovetsky
• The contemporary Russian novel / Jacob Emery
• Svetlana Alexievich and the novel tradition / Justin Weir
• Russian formalism and the novel / Thomas Seifrid
• The word about the word : Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel / Alexander Spektor
• Mind games : on psychology in the Russian novel / Angela Brintlinger
• An uneasy compact : the Russian novel as philosophy / Jeff Love
• Ethics and the Russian novel / Gary Saul Morson
• Empire and the Russian novel / Edyta M. Bojanowska
• Nature in the Russian novel / Jane Costlow
• Siberia and the queerness of the Russian novel / Ani Kokobobo
• Escape vehicles : Yiddish and the Russian novel / Gabriella Safran
• Race, ethnicity, and the Russian novel -/ Michael Kunichika
• Seeing the (Russian) novel / Molly Brunson
• The haunted house : spiritualism and the realist novel / Ilya Vinitsky
• Bodily expression, gesture, and knowledge in the Russian novel / Timothy Langen
• Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and their smalls : children and animals / Robin Miller
• Coping with matter in the Russian novel : anatomists, alchemists, geologists, and collectors / Michal Oklot
• Dostoevsky's depth theology / Yuri Corrigan
• Grotesque fictions : posthumanism and the novel / Julia Vaingurt
• Why don't we read them? The underwater corpus of nineteenth-century Russian realist novels / Julie A. Buckler
• The woman question : learned noblewomen writers / Hilde Hoogenboom
• Crime and terrorism in the Russian novel / Julia Chadaga
• Conceptions of realism in the (socialist) 1930s / Nariman Skakov
• Seriousness, humor and the contradictions of late socialism / Ann Komaromi
• The Russian novel in English translation / Catherine McAteer
• Russian novels of the émigré everyday / Tatyana Gershkovich
• Global cooling : from the fluid transnationalism of Ada to the frigid poetics of Transparent things / Eric Naiman
• First as comedy, then as nationalism : the immigrant post-Soviet novel between American and Israel / Alex Moshkin and Sasha Senderovich
• The Russophone novel : past, present, and uncertain future / Nathan Goldstone.

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Other title(s)

Handbook of the Russian novel

ISBN

• 9780197520857 ((hardback))
• 0197520855

LCCN

2025000230

OCLC

1514658230

Other standard number

• CIPO000298232

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