Russian Writers And The Fin De Siècle: The Twilight Of Realism
by Katherine Bowers /
2015 / English / PDF
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Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially
during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a
'fin-de-siècle' mood informed Russian literature long before the
chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had
significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some
chapters consider ideas more readily associated with fin-de-siècle
Europe such as degeneration theory, biodeterminism, Freudian
psychoanalysis or apocalypticism, alongside earlier Russian realist
texts by writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. Other
chapters explore the changes that realism underwent as modernism
emerged, examining later nineteenth-century or early
twentieth-century texts in the context of the earlier realist
tradition or their own cultural moment. Overall, a team of emerging
and established scholars of Russian literature and culture present
a wide range of creative and insightful readings that shed new
light on later realism in all its manifestations.
Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially
during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a
'fin-de-siècle' mood informed Russian literature long before the
chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had
significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some
chapters consider ideas more readily associated with fin-de-siècle
Europe such as degeneration theory, biodeterminism, Freudian
psychoanalysis or apocalypticism, alongside earlier Russian realist
texts by writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. Other
chapters explore the changes that realism underwent as modernism
emerged, examining later nineteenth-century or early
twentieth-century texts in the context of the earlier realist
tradition or their own cultural moment. Overall, a team of emerging
and established scholars of Russian literature and culture present
a wide range of creative and insightful readings that shed new
light on later realism in all its manifestations.
