Self and Story in Russian History /

Self and Story in Russian History / / ed. by Laura Engelstein, Stephanie Sandler.

Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which Russians have defined themselves as private persons a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bershtein, Evgenii,
Emerson, Caryl,
Engelstein, Laura,
Hellbeck, Jochen,
Kahn, Andrew,
Larsen, Susan,
McReynolds, Louise,
Mills Todd, William,
Paperno, Irina,
Popkin, Cathy,
Ransel, David L.,
Sandler, Stephanie,
Wortman, Richard,
Zelnik, Reginald E.,
Zholkovsky, Alexander,
HerausgeberIn:
Engelstein, Laura,
Sandler, Stephanie,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 24 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Bakhtin, Lotman, Vygotsky, and Lydia Ginzburg on Types of Selves: A Tribute
  • 2. The Obverse of Stalinism: Akhmatova's Self-Serving Charisma of Selflessness
  • 3. Writing the Self in the Time of Terror: Alexander Afinogenov's Diary of 1937
  • 4. Publicizing the Imperial Image in 1913
  • 5. The Silent Movie Melodrama: Evgenii Bauer Fashions the Heroine's Self
  • 6. Girl Talk: Lydia Charskaia and Her Readers
  • 7. The Russian Myth of Oscar Wilde
  • 8. Hysterical Episodes: Case Histories and Silent Subjects
  • 9. Weber into Tkachi: On a Russian Reading of Gerhart Hauptmann's Play The Weavers
  • 10. Tolstoy's Diaries: The Inaccessible Self
  • 11. Storied Selves: Constructing Characters in The Brothers Karamazov
  • 12. Self and Sensibility in Radishchev's.Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: Dialogism, Relativism, and the Moral Spectator
  • 13. Enlightenment and Tradition: The Aestheticized Life of an Eighteenth-Century Provincial Merchant
  • 14. Personal Testimony and the Defense of Faith: Skoptsy Telling Tales
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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