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- Poverty of the Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature about the Po
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
summary
The primal scene of all nineteenth-century western thought might involve an observer gazing at someone poor, most commonly on the streets of a great metropolis, and wondering what the spectacle meant in human, moral, political, and metaphysical terms. For Russia, most of whose people hovered near the poverty line throughout history, the scene is one of special significance, presenting a plethora of questions and possibilities for writers who wished to depict the spiritual and material reality of Russian life. How these writers responded, and what their portrayal of poverty reveals and articulates about core values of Russian culture, is the subject of this book, which offers a compelling look into the peculiar convergence in nineteenth-century Russian literature of ideas about the poor and about the processes of art.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Chapter Four. Gogol against Sympathy
- pp. 108-142
- Bibliography
- pp. 263-273
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810121300
Related ISBN(s)
9780810116924
MARC Record
OCLC
606678842
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No