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Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One Heroism and Individualism: The Russian Context 1 Chapter Two "The Demon": How Not to Regain Paradise Lost 28 Chapter Three The Hero and the Masquerade: Temptations of a Gnostic Outlook 53 Chapter Four The Enigma of Heroism in Lermontov's "The Song of Tsar Ivan Vassilyevich, His Young Oprichnik, and the Stout-hearted Merchant Kalashnikov" 85 ix Chapter Fice Futile, Fatal, or Heroic: Pechorin in "The Fatalist" 110 Chapter Six Chapter Seven Afterword Notes Lermontov versus Marlinsky; or, Why Grushnitsky Had to Be Thrown off the Cliff 133 Mtsyri's Refusals: The Making of Lermontov's Paradoxical Hero 154 "The Man That Hath No Music in Himself ..." 186 Selected Bibliography Index 192 222 2.37 ...

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