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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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Writing Russian Lives, Polly Jones
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2018
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- Titel
- Writing Russian Lives
- Untertitel
- The Poetics of Biography in Modern Russian Culture
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Polly Jones
- Verlag
- MHRA
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2018
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 184
- ISBN10
- 1781889104
- ISBN13
- 9781781889107
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Biografische Romane, Biografische Essays
- Beschreibung
- 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.