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1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Table of contents; list of images; acknowledgements; conventions; introduction; part i; dumas in russia and the caucasus; "a successful failure"; leont'ev's views on france and great britain; russia, east asia and the search for the "real europe"; part ii; the reference to the year 1793 in a tale of two cities, ninety three and the devils; the other as object of desire; part iii; french references in soviet painting of the 1920s and 1930s; the power of darkness; renata litvinova; part iv; an alsacian pugachev; the year 1812; merezhkovsky, blum and petit |
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The russian diaspora in the context of french culturecontributors; index |
| Summary |
This volume highlights the diversity and complexity of cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the end of the eighteenth century. Part one contains contributions which focus on how these cultures have viewed each other. There are chapters on the myth of Dumas père in Russia, the Russian travelogues of Henry Lansdell, Konstantin Leont'ev's views on Great Britain and France, and the Russian Symbolists' construction of a mythical European past. Authors in the second part compar .. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cultural relations.
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Cultural relations in literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Humanities.
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Cultural studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Cultural relations
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Cultural relations in literature
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International relations
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Russia -- Relations -- Europe, Western
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Europe, Western -- Relations -- Russia
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Western Europe
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Russia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443827904 |
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1443827908 |
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9781443826440 |
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1443826448 |
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1283142392 |
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9781283142397 |
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