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The Society Tale in Russian Literature
From Odoevskii to Tolstoi
Series: - Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Volume: 31
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This collection of essays is the first book to appear on the society tale in nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Written by a team of British and American scholars, the volume is based on a symposium on the society tale held at the University of Bristol in 1996. The essays examine the development of the society tale in Russian fiction, from its beginnings in the 1820s until its subsumption into the realist novel, later in the century. The contributions presented vary in approach from the text or author based study to the generic or the sociological. Power, gender and discourse theory all feature strongly and the volume should be of considerable interest to students and scholars of nineteenth-century Russian literature. There are essays covering Pushkin, Lermontov, Odoevsky and Tolstoi, as well as more minor writers, and more general and theoretical approaches.
Introduction. I: Neil CORNWELL: Vladimir Odoevskii and the Society Tale in the 1820s and 1830s. S. DALTON-BROWN: Pointing Out the Power Paradox: Pushkin's Society Tale Parodies. Robert REID: Princess Ligovskaia and Princess Mary: the Society Tale Goes to the Caucasus. Michael PURSGLOVE: V.A. Sollogub and High Society. Ruth SOBEL: Panaev's The Onager: A Hybrid Between Society Tale and Physiological Sketch. Hilde HOOGENBOOM: The Society Tale as Pastiche: Mariia Zhukova's Heroines Move to the Country. W. Gareth JONES: Tolstoi's Alternative Society Tales. II: Richard PEACE: Svetskaia povest' and the 'World' of Russian Literature. Joe ANDREW: Another Time, Another Place: Gender and the Chronotope in the Society Tale. Carolyn JURSA AYERS: The Heroine's Education in the Society Tale. Rebecca EPSTEIN MATVEYEV: From the Society Tale to the Novel: A Model of Genre Development. List of Contributors. Bibliography. Index.
