Peter I. Barta / David H. J. Larmour / Paul Allen Miller (eds.)

Russian Literature and the Classics

Herausgeber: Larmour, David H. J.; Barta, Peter I.; Miller, Paul Allen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This much-needed volume focuses on the various ways in which the Classics have influenced Russian literature at particularly significant junctures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9783718606054
• ISBN-10: 3718606054
• Artikelnr.: 75438464

Autorenporträt

Peter I. Barta is a lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Surrey in England. David H. J. Larmour is an associate professor and chair of Classics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Paul Allen Miller is an assistant professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the series. Introduction. 1. Thunder Imagery and the Turn
Against Horace in Derzhavin's ''Evgeniyu, Zhizn' Zvanskaya'' (1807) by
Charles Byrd 2. Mediating the Distance: Prophecy and Alterity in Greek
Tragedy and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' by Naomi Rood 3. The Source
of Andrei Bely's Literary Mifotvorchestvo: 'The Case of the Ableukhovs' by
Mary Jo White 4. Hellenism, Culture and Christianity: The Case of
Vyacheslav Ivanov and his ''Palinode'' of 1927 by Pamela Davidson 5. Soviet
Russia Through the Lens of Classical Antiquity: An Analysis of Greco-Roman
Allusions and Thought in the Oeuvre of Vasilii Grossman by Frank Ellis 6.
Classical Motifs in the Poetry of Alexksandr Kushner by David N. Wells 7.
The Wandering Greek: Images of Antiquity in Joseph Brodsky by Dan
Ungurianu.