The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

Routledge Companions

by Neil Cornwell (Editor)

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years.
The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature.
With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.

Genres: Russian Literature, Russia

282 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2001

Reviews

[Alexandru]

Not very well structured, but useful if you have no idea about Russian literature.

[Frans Kempe]

A helpful book when studying russian litterature. Used it for a course on russion litterature.