Julian W. Connolly

The Intimate Stranger

Meetings with the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

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The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Nearly all of the major authors of the period - Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - used images of devils to explore issues of human temptation, sin, and guilt in a troubled world. Asking fundamental questions - where does evil come from? when does it appear in characters' lives? - these writers created a remarkable array of demonic figures, ranging from grotesque demons to handsome nihilists. This book discusses the various literary, religious, an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8204-5516-7
EAN: 9780820455167
Produktnummer: 19040018
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 308 S.
Masse: H16.0 cm x B23.8 cm x D2.2 cm 564 g
Gewicht: 564
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

The Author: Julian W. Connolly is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Ivan Bunin and Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other. He edited two volumes of literary criticism, Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives and Invitation to a Beheading: A Critical Companion, and he served as co-editor of Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev. He has published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature.