Writing Russian Lives

Writing Russian Lives
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Publisher : MHRA
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9781781889107
ISBN-13 : 1781889104
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Book Synopsis Writing Russian Lives by : Polly Jones

Download or read book Writing Russian Lives written by Polly Jones and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a dominant force in post-Soviet publishing. Yet studies of Russian biography’s poetics and its role as a literary and cultural institution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries remain thin on the ground, a fact often lamented, yet not fully addressed, in the scattered writings on the subject. The present volume examines modern Russian biography as a literary form, a publishing phenomenon and a cultural force that reveals and contests hegemonic ideas of the role of the individual in society, and of the make-up of the human personality itself.


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