{"product_id":"writing-russian-lives-polly-jones-9781781889107","title":"Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Biography in Modern Russian Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a dominant force in post-Soviet publishing. Yet studies of Russian biography's poetics and its role as a literary and cultural institution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries remain thin on the ground, a fact often lamented, yet not fully addressed, in the scattered writings on the subject. The present volume examines modern Russian biography as a literary form, a publishing phenomenon and a cultural force that reveals and contests hegemonic ideas of the role of the individual in society, and of the make-up of the human personality itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Polly Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781889104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781889107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Humanities Research Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d","brand":"Polly Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077307199743,"sku":"9781781889107","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_742ef84a-8fb2-46ce-9d40-90d03ead49b8.jpg?v=1685469286","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-russian-lives-polly-jones-9781781889107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}