From the Idyll to the Novel: Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hammarberg, Gitta (Author), Gitta, Hammarberg (Author), Kelly, Catriona (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521025605 ISBN-13: 9780521025607 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: N.M. Karamzin (1766-1826) was the foremost Russian representative of the late eighteenth-century Sentimentalist movement. In this study, Gitta Hammarberg makes use of recent advances in literary theory (especially those based on the work of Bakhtin and Voloshinov) in order to develop a new theory of Sentimentalist literature, which she applies to Karamzin's prose fiction. Professor Hammarberg situates Sentimentalism in its historical context, as a reflection of contemporary shifts in world view, a reaction against the Neo-Classicist view of literature, and a vehicle for legitimizing prose fiction. She stresses the importance of the role of the author-reader in the structure of Sentimentalist texts, and relates this to the style and genres of these works. Through close readings of a representative selection of Karamzin's prose fiction, including works previously disregarded as trivial or frivolous, she shows the range of Sentimentalist fiction, its place in literary evolution, and ways in which it anticipates the Romantic movement and the modern Russian novel. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | European - General |
Dewey: 891.782 |
Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature |
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.98 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 18th Century |