The House in Russian Literature

The House in Russian Literature
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 525
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ISBN-10 : 9789042029156
ISBN-13 : 9042029153
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Book Synopsis The House in Russian Literature by : Joost van Baak

Download or read book The House in Russian Literature written by Joost van Baak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domestic theme has a tremendous anthropological, literary and cultural significance. The purpose of this book is to analyse and interpret the most important realisations and tendencies of this thematic complex in the history of Russian literature. It is the first systematic book-length exploration of the meaning and development of the House theme in Russian literature of the past 200 years. It studies the ideological, psychological and moral meanings which Russian cultural and literary tradition have invested in the house or projected on it in literary texts. Central to this study’s approach is the concept of the House Myth, consisting of a set of basic fabular elements and a set of general types of House images. This House Myth provides the general point of reference from which the literary works were analyzed and compared. With the help of this analytical procedure characteristics of individual authors could be described as well as recurrent patterns and features discerned in the way Russian literature dealt with the House and its thematics, thus reflecting characteristics of Russian literary world pictures, Russian mentalities and Russian attitudes towards life. This book is of interest for students of Russian literature as well as for those interested in the House as a cultural and literary topic, in the semiotics of literature, and in relations between culture, anthropology and literature.


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