Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narrative

by Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley Rabinowitz

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Novel Epics reassesses the origins of the nineteenth-century Russian novel, challenging the Luk cs-Bakhtin theory of epic. Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz take the Russian novel out of a specifically European context and show that it developed as a means of reconnecting that narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810109018

ISBN13:9780810109018

Release Date:August 1990

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.68 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) World Literature

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