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A Fallen Idol Is Still a God
Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition
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Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
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English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
A Fallen Idol is Still a God demonstrates how the works of the seminal nineteenth-century Russian author Mikhail Lermontov reflect the cultural transition out of Romanticism and the dynamics of cultural transition itself.
Author / Editor information
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College; she is also Chair of the Department of Russian and Co-chair of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Program in Comparative Literature. She is author of Beyond Realism: Turgenev's Poetics of Secular Salvation (1992), editor of The Essential Turgenev (1994), and coeditor of Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature (1995).
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Gary Saul Morson:
"How does one describe a cultural period between two epochs without saying, anachronistically, that things were tending towards where they wound up going? Can one describe the sense that one has outlived one set of practices and visions but not yet arrived at an alternative? Developing her own model of transitional periods, Allen shows how to describe a prominent writer's creative efforts when his fallen idol is still a god. In the process, she offers a compelling portrait of Lermontov, brings his works to life in a new way, and demonstrates that some of them are even better than we thought."
"How does one describe a cultural period between two epochs without saying, anachronistically, that things were tending towards where they wound up going? Can one describe the sense that one has outlived one set of practices and visions but not yet arrived at an alternative? Developing her own model of transitional periods, Allen shows how to describe a prominent writer's creative efforts when his fallen idol is still a god. In the process, she offers a compelling portrait of Lermontov, brings his works to life in a new way, and demonstrates that some of them are even better than we thought."
William Mills Todd III:
"This is a most impressive and elegantly written book. A Fallen Idol Is Still a God is a wonderfully mature, insightful, and carefully thought-out study of Lermontov's texts and place in literary history. Specifically, it surpasses earlier studies in the precision and originality of its treatment of Lermontov's Romanticism."
Slavic and East European Journal:
"Allen's book is a fine addition to Golstein's and Powelstock's recent Lermontov scholarship, and one hopes that A Fallen Idol will find wide readership."
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Publishing information
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October 26, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9780804768030
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304
eBook ISBN:
9780804768030
Keywords for this book
Literary Studies -- European
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Professional and scholarly;
