| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) |
| Series |
Heritage |
| Contents |
Russian literature and society on the threshold of the new millennium -- The seniors' prose -- The mature generation -- The new writers of the Perestroika era -- Women writers -- The writers of the conservative 'patriotic' camp -- The mystery novel writers -- The new names of 1995-2002 |
| Summary |
Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized between an increasingly prosperous minority and a very poor majority. This divide is also mirrored within the writing community, with some writers supporting conservative, nationalist pro-Soviet thinking, and others, liberal, democratic, pro-Western thought. Shneidman investigates the Russian literary scene with special emphasis on the relationship between thematic substance and the artistic quality of recently published prose. Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant: a new generation of talented writers is fast moving past older forms of ideology and embracing new ways of thinking about Russia.--From publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Russian fiction
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Russisch.
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Proza.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004484717 |
| ISBN |
9781442679528 |
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1442679522 |
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1281996483 |
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9781281996480 |
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9786611996482 |
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6611996486 |
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1442656085 |
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9781442656086 |
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