Chapter 2
D. Bethea, Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Madison, Wisconsin, 1998); P. Debreczeny, ‘Zhitie Aleksandra Boldinskogo: Pushkin’s Elevation to Sainthood in Soviet Culture’, South Atlantic Quarterly 90 (1991), 269–302; M. C. Levitt, Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 (Ithaca, NY, 1989); K. Petrone, Life Has Become Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Bloomington, Ind., 2000), chapter 5; A. Siniavsky, Strolls with Pushkin (New Haven, Conn., 1993); S. Vitale, Pushkin’s Button (London, 1999). See also the chapters by M. C. Levitt and S. Sandler in B. Gasparov, R. C. Hughes, and I. Paperno (eds.), Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: From the Golden Age to the Silver Age (Berkeley, 1992).
Chapter 3
For Pushkin’s own views on the canon, see Tatiana Woolf (ed.), Pushkin on Literature (London, 1971). C. R. S. Cockrell and D. Richards (eds.), Russian Views of Pushkin (Oxford, 1976) and S. Hoisington (ed.), Russian Views of Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin (Bloomington, Ind., 1988) are useful anthologies of critical opinion. More generally, see J. Brooks, ‘Russian Nationalism and Russian Literature: The Canonization of the Classics’, in I. Banac, J. G. Ackerman, and R. Szporluk (eds.), Nation and Ideology (1981), 315–34; M. Friedberg, Russian Classics in Soviet Jackets (New York, 1962); S. Lovell, The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (Basingstoke, 2000). On censorship, see M. T. Choldin and M. Friedberg (eds.), The Red Penciclass="underline" Artists, Scholars, and Censors in the USSR (Boston, 1989); M. Dewhirst and R. Farrell (eds.), The Soviet Censorship (Metuchen, NJ, 1973); D. Jones (ed.), Literary Censorship: A Reference Guide (London, 2001); L. Losev, On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature (Munich, 1984).
Chapter 4
L. Ginzburg, On Psychological Prose (Princeton, NJ, 1990); G. S. Morson, Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace (Berkeley, 1987); A. Wachtel, An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past (Stanford, 1994).
Chapter 5
For nineteenth-century Russian literature and politics, see Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers (London, 1978); Aileen Kelly, Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers between Necessity and Chance (New Haven, 1998) and her Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin (New Haven, 1999); Leonard Schapiro, Turgenev: His Life and Times (Oxford, 1978). On the twentieth century, see K. Clark, The Soviet Noveclass="underline" History as Ritual (Chicago, 1981); G. Freidin, A Coat of Many Colors: Osip Mandelstam and his Mythologies of Self-Preservation (Berkeley, 1987); J. Garrard and C. Garrard, Inside the Soviet Writers’ Union (London, 1990); T. Lahusen, How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin’s Russia (Ithaca, NY, 1997); R. Robin, Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic (Stanford, 1992); D. Shepherd, Beyond Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in Soviet Literature (Oxford, 1992); G. S. Smith, D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life (Oxford, 2000), part 3.
Chapter 6
J. Andrew (ed.), Russian Women’s Shorter Fiction: An Anthology 1835–1860 (Oxford, 1996); H. Goscilo and B. Holmgren (eds.), Russia – Women – Culture (Bloomington, Ind., 1997); B. Heldt, Terrible Perfection: Women in Russian Literature (Bloomington, Ind., 1987); B. Holmgren, Women’s Work in Stalin’s Times (Bloomington, Ind., 1993); C. Kelly (ed.), An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1777–1992 (Oxford, 1994) and C. Kelly, A History of Russian Women’s Writing, 1820–1992 (Oxford, 1994); M. Ledkovsky, C. Rosenthal, and M. Zirin (eds.), A Dictionary of Russian Women Writers (Westport, Conn., 1994); L. Ya. Ginzburg, Yu. M. Lotman, and B. Uspensky, The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History (Ithaca, NY, 1985); I. Reyfman, Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature (Stanford, 1999); W. M. Todd III, Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, and Narrative (Cambridge, Mass., 1986).
Chapter 7
J. Andrew, Narrative and Desire in Russian Literature: The Feminine and The Masculine (Basingstoke, 1993); M. Makin, Marina Tsvetaeva: The Poetics of Appropriation (Oxford, 1994), chapter 3; F. J. Oinas, Essays in Russian Folklore and Mythology (Columbus, Ohio, 1975); D. E. Peterson, Up From Bondage: The Literature of Russian and African-American Soul (Durham, NC, 2000); S. Sandler, Distant Pleasures: Aleksandr Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (Stanford, 1989); J. West in R. Anderson and Paul Debreczeny, Russian Narrative and Visual Art: Varieties of Seeing (Gainesville, Florida, 1994).
Chapter 8
S. Baehr, The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Stanford, 1991); J. Billington, The Icon and the Axe (London, 1966); C. Brandist, Carnival Culture in the Soviet Modernist Novel (Basingstoke, 1996); P. Davidson (ed.), Russian Literature and its Demons (London, 2000); S. Hutchings, Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday (Cambridge, 1997); E. Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Literature (Ithaca, NY, 1997); R. Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Visions and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Oxford, 1989).
INDEX
References in bold type are to explanatory text–boxes.
A
Aeschylus 9
Akhmatova, Anna (1889–1966), poet 5, 18, 24, 26–7, 73, 88, 91, 103, 109, 111, 112–13, 115
Alexander I (reigned 1801–25), Emperor of Russia 13
Aksakov, Konstantin (1817–60), Slavophile thinker 150
Aleshkovsky, Yuz (b. 1929), novelist 136
Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr (1862–1938), prose writer 93
Annenkov, Pavel (1812 or 1813–87), critic 77
Annensky, Innokenty (1855 or 1856–1909), poet 62
Antokolsky, Pavel (1896–1978), poet 91
Apollo (literary journal) 37–8, 42