{"product_id":"how-russian-literature-became-great-rolf-hellebust-9781501773419","title":"How Russian Literature Became Great","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Russian Literature Became Great\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the cultural and political role of a modern national literature, orchestrated in a Slavonic key but resonating far beyond Russia's borders. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRolf Hellebust investigates a range of literary tendencies, philosophies, and theories from antiquity to the present: Roman jurisprudence to German Romanticism, French Enlightenment to Czech Structuralism, Herder to Hobsbawm, Samuel Johnson to Sainte-Beuve, and so on. Besides the usual Russian suspects from Pushkin to Chekhov, Hellebust includes European writers: Byron and Shelley, Goethe and Schiller, Chateaubriand and Baudelaire, Dante, Mickiewicz, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs elsewhere, writing in Russia advertises itself via a canon of literary monuments constituting an atemporal \"ideal order among themselves\" (T.S. Eliot). And yet this is a tradition that could only have been born at a specific moment in the golden nineteenth-century age of historiography and nation-building. The Russian example reveals the contradictions between immutability and innovation, universality and specificity at the heart of modern conceptions of tradition from Sainte-Beuve through Eliot and down to the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conditions of its era of formation--the prominence of the crucial literary-historical question of the writer's social function, and the equation of literature with national identity--make the Russian classical tradition the epitome of a unified cultural text, with a complex narrative in which competing stories of progress and decline unfold through the symbolic biographical encounters of the authors who constitute its members.\u003ci\u003e How Russian Literature Became Great\u003c\/i\u003e thus offers a new paradigm for understanding the paradoxes of modern tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rolf Hellebust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501773410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501773419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Rolf Hellebust","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44201818783999,"sku":"9781501773419","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8817943e-4c0f-44c8-a2c8-8f6a1b46f50d.jpg?v=1691491596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-russian-literature-became-great-rolf-hellebust-9781501773419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}