A Fallen Idol Is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition Contributor(s): Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804753709 ISBN-13: 9780804753708 Publisher: Stanford University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2006 Annotation: " This is a most impressive and elegantly written book. A Fallen Idol Is Still a God is a wonderfully mature, insightful, and carefully thought-out study of Lermontov' s texts and place in literary history. Specifically, it surpasses earlier studies in the precision and originality of its treatment of Lermontov' s Romanticism." -- William Mills Todd III, Harvard University " How does one describe a cultural period between two epochs without saying, anachronistically, that things were tending towards where they wound up going? Can one describe the sense that one has outlived one set of practices and visions but not yet arrived at an alternative? Developing her own model of transitional periods, Allen shows how to describe a prominent writer's creative efforts when his fallen idol is still a god. In the process, she offers a compelling portrait of Lermontov, brings his works to life in a new way, and demonstrates that some of them are even better than we thought." -- Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 891.713 |
LCCN: 2006023423 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.34" W x 9.06" L (1.19 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 270 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Fallen Idol is Still a God demonstrates how the works of the seminal nineteenth-century Russian author Mikhail Lermontov reflect the cultural transition out of Romanticism and the dynamics of cultural transition itself. |
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