Life is elsewhere: symbolic geography in the russian provinces, 1800–1917
Auteur :
Lounsbery, Anne
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501747915
Date de publication :
15 nov. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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...