Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature</em> is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. <br> The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature.<br> With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, <em>The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature</em> is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.</p> Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction: Russian literature – the first thousand years, 2 Old Russian literature and its heritage, 3 Russian literature in the eighteenth century, 4 Folklore and Russian literature, 5 Religious writing in post-Petrine Russia, 6 Pre-revolutionary Russian theatre, 7 Pushkin: from Byron to Shakespeare, 8 The Golden Age of Russian poetry, 9 The classic Russian novel, 10 The superfluous man in Russian literature, 11 Nineteenth-century Russian thought and literature, 12 The Silver Age: Symbolism and Post-Symbolism, 13 Women’s writing in Russia, 14 Russian literary theory: from the Formalists to Lotman, 15 Socialist realism in Soviet literature, 16 Experiment and emigration: Russian literature, 1917–1953, 17 Russian poetry since 1945, 18 Post-revolutionary Russian theatre, 19 Thaws, freezes and wakes: Russian literature, 1953–1991, 20 Post-Soviet Russian literature, Bibliography, Index