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Life Is Elsewhere – Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Autor Anne Lounsbery
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2019
In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called the provinces--a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures Russian literature's representation of the nation's space. Using a comparative approach, she brings to light fundamental questions that have long gone unasked: how to understand, for instance, the weakness of literary regionalism in a country as large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same? In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, Lounsbery argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficult questions about the symbolic geography of the nation as a whole. This constant awareness of a far-off European model helps explain why the provinces, in all their supposed drabness and predictability, are a topic of such fascination for Russian writers--why these anonymous places are in effect so important and meaningful, notwithstanding the culture's nearly unremitting emphasis on their nullity and meaninglessness.
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ISBN-13: 9781501747915
ISBN-10: 1501747916
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Seria NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies


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In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"-a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has...

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Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
1. Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground
2. Before the Provinces: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Pushkin's Countryside
3. Inventing Provincial Backwardness, or "Everything is Barbarous and Horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and Others)
4. "This is Paris itself!": Gogol in the Town of N
5. "I Do Beg of You, Wait, and Compare!": Goncharov, Belinsky, and Provincial Taste
6. Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev's Cosmopolitans
7. Transcendence Deferred: Women Writers in the Provinces
8. Melnikov and Leskov, or What is Regionalism in Russia?
9. Centering and Decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
10. "Everything Here is Accidental": Chekhov's Geography of Meaninglessness
11. In the End: Shchedrin, Sologub, and Terminal Provinciality
12. Conclusion: The Provinces in the Twentieth Century
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index