Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

For nineteenth-century Russian literature and politics, see Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers (London, 1978); Aileen Kelly, Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers between Necessity and Chance (New Haven, 1998) and her Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin (New Haven, 1999); Leonard Schapiro, Turgenev: His Life and Times (Oxford, 1978). On the twentieth century, see K. Clark, The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual (Chicago, 1981); G. Freidin, A Coat of Many Colors: Osip Mandelstam and his Mythologies of Self-Preservation (Berkeley, 1987); J. Garrard and C. Garrard, Inside the Soviet Writers’ Union (London, 1990); T. Lahusen, How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin’s Russia (Ithaca, NY, 1997); R. Robin, Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic (Stanford, 1992); D. Shepherd, Beyond Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in Soviet Literature (Oxford, 1992); G. S. Smith, D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life (Oxford, 2000), part 3.

Chapter 6

J. Andrew (ed.), Russian Women’s Shorter Fiction: An Anthology 1835–1860 (Oxford, 1996); H. Goscilo and B. Holmgren (eds.), Russia – Women – Culture (Bloomington, Ind., 1997); B. Heldt, Terrible Perfection: Women in Russian Literature (Bloomington, Ind., 1987); B. Holmgren, Women’s Work in Stalin’s Times (Bloomington, Ind., 1993); C. Kelly (ed.), An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1777–1992 (Oxford, 1994) and C. Kelly, A History of Russian Women’s Writing, 1820–1992 (Oxford, 1994); M. Ledkovsky, C. Rosenthal, and M. Zirin (eds.), A Dictionary of Russian Women Writers (Westport, Conn., 1994); L. Ya. Ginzburg, Yu. M. Lotman, and B. Uspensky, The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History (Ithaca, NY, 1985); I. Reyfman, Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature (Stanford, 1999); W. M. Todd III, Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, and Narrative (Cambridge, Mass., 1986).

Chapter 7

J. Andrew, Narrative and Desire in Russian Literature: The Feminine and The Masculine (Basingstoke, 1993); M. Makin, Marina Tsvetaeva: The Poetics of Appropriation (Oxford, 1994), chapter 3; F. J. Oinas, Essays in Russian Folklore and Mythology (Columbus, Ohio, 1975); D. E. Peterson, Up From Bondage: The Literature of Russian and African-American Soul (Durham, NC, 2000); S. Sandler, Distant Pleasures: Aleksandr Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (Stanford, 1989); J. West in R. Anderson and Paul Debreczeny, Russian Narrative and Visual Art: Varieties of Seeing (Gainesville, Florida, 1994).

Chapter 8

S. Baehr, The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Stanford, 1991); J. Billington, The Icon and the Axe (London, 1966); C. Brandist, Carnival Culture in the Soviet Modernist Novel (Basingstoke, 1996); P. Davidson (ed.), Russian Literature and its Demons (London, 2000); S. Hutchings, Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday (Cambridge, 1997); E. Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Literature (Ithaca, NY, 1997); R. Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Visions and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Oxford, 1989).

INDEX

References in bold type are to explanatory text–boxes.

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Aeschylus 9

Akhmatova, Anna (1889–1966), poet 5, 18, 24, 26–7, 73, 88, 91, 103, 109, 111, 112–13, 115