Автор: Charles Moser
Название: The Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1992
ISBN: 9780521425674 / 0521425670
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 57,2 mb
Страниц: 720
This history presents in narrative form a survey of Russian literature from the beginnings to this decade, in sufficient but not overwhelming detail. Those who wish to pursue particular points in more depth will find guidance in the bibliography appended to the volume, which is also in effect an outline of the historiography of Russian literature for approximately the last century, though with emphasis upon studies in western European languages, and especially in English.
In 1986, indeed, we marked the centenary of the publication of the first truly influential work on Russian literature in a western language: Eugene Marie Melchior de Vogue’s Le Roman russe, which initiated what has turned out to be a sturdy tradition of criticism and scholarship in western languages. In addition, we are approximately at a century’s remove from the time when the great pioneer translators of Russian literature into English - Isabel Hapgood in the United States, whose first translations appeared in 1886, and Constance Garnett in England, who started publishing her translations in 1894 - began the careers which would do so much to bring Russian writers to the attention of the English-speaking world.
Each of this book’s ten chapters has been written by a different hand, that of a specialist in the period for which he or she is responsible. Of the ten, one is a western European, two are former Soviet scholars now in emigration in the west (the general editor is responsible for the English translations of their chapters), three are British, three are American, one a long-term resident of the United States, and the general editor is American. The bibliography emphasizes scholarship in Russian and in western European languages. Thus the general editor has sought to bring an international perspective to this volume.