Russian Literature and the Classics

by Barta,Peter I.; Barta,Peter I.

• ISBN13: 9783718606061
• ISBN10: 3718606062
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This much-needed volume focuses on the various ways in which the Classics have influenced Russian literature at particularly significant junctures.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Thunder Imagery and the Turn Against Horace in Derzhavin's ''Evgeniyu, Zhizn' Zvanskaya'' (1807)

Mediating the Distance: Prophecy and Alterity in Greek Tragedy and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'

The Source of Andrei Bely's Literary Mifotvorchestvo: 'The Case of the Ableukhovs'

Hellenism, Culture and Christianity: The Case of Vyacheslav Ivanov and his ''Palinode'' of 1927

Soviet Russia Through the Lens of Classical Antiquity: An Analysis of Greco-Roman Allusions and Thought in the Oeuvre of Vasilii Grossman

Classical Motifs in the Poetry of Alexksandr Kushner

The Wandering Greek: Images of Antiquity in Joseph Brodsky

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