4. The Semiospheric Novel and the Broadening of Cultural Self-Consciousness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Culture ( Obrazovanie, Bildung ) and the Bildungsroman on Russian Soil
6. 1. Russian Literature from the National Awakening of the 1800s to the Rise of Pochvennichestvo in the 1850s 17
7. 2. Apollon Grigor’ev’s Theory of Russian Culture 29
8. 3. Yurii Lotman’s Idea of the ‘Semiosphere ’ 38
9. 4. The Semiospheric Novel and the Broadening of Cultural Self-Consciousness 49
10. Part II. Nineteenth-Century Russian Novels of Emergence
11. 5. Pushkin’s Quest for National Culture: The Captain’s Daughter as a Russian Bildungsroman 57
12. 6. Educating Russia, Building Humanity: Tolstoy’s War and Peace 91
13. 7. Dostoevsky on Individual Reform and National Reconciliation: The Adolescent 135
14. Conclusion 174
15. Appendix 181
16. Notes 189
17. Bibliography 239
18. Index 265