Life Is Elsewhere : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 /

"Author shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"--A place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow"--

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Autor principal: Lounsbery, Anne (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Taula de continguts:
  • Geography, history, trope : facts on the ground
  • Before the provinces : pastoral and anti-pastoral in Pushkin's countryside inventing provincial backwardness, or, "Everything is barbarous and horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and others)
  • "This is Paris itself!" : Gogol in the town of N
  • "I do beg of you, wait, and compare!" : Goncharov, Belinsky, and provincial taste
  • Back home : the provincial lives of Turgenev's cosmopolitans
  • Transcendence deferred : women writers in the provinces
  • Melnikov and Leskov, or, What is regionalism in Russia?
  • Centering and decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
  • "Everything here is accidental" : Chekhov's geography of meaninglessness
  • In the end : Shchedrin, Sologub, and terminal provinciality
  • Conclusion : the provinces in the twentieth century.