Synopses & Reviews
The twenty-two essays in Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism, six of which appear in Russian, display the enormous advances that have taken place among Slavists in the study of the fascinating, but tragically circumscribed period in Russian literature that extends from the turn of the century to the Stalinist holocaust. This collection offers a definitive statement of how features of the Pushkin era were transformed during the Modernist age into a cultural mythology that encompassed personal and literary behavior, and such far-reaching issues as national identity and cultural destiny.
About the Author
Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno teach in the Slavic Languages department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Table of Contents
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORSIntroduction: The "Golden Age" and Its Role in the Cultural Mythology of Russian Modernism, Boris Gasparov
I. The Cultural Myth of Pushkin
Irina Paperno
Olga Matich
Joan Delaney Grossman
Liza Knapp
David M. Bethea
Andrew Wachtel
Boris Gasparov
II. Pushkin as an Institution
Marcus C. Levitt
Robert P. Hughes
Greta N. Slobin
Stephanie Sandler
III. Pushkin in the Twentieth Century: Readings, Texts, and Subtexts
William Mills Todd III
Monika Frenkel Greenleaf
Alexander Zholkovsky
Sarah Pratt
Simon Karlinsky
Carol Ueland
Henryk Baran
Tomas Venclova
Irina Reyfman
Sergei Davydov
Appendix, John E. Malmstad