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>