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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press

ISBN-100802086705

ISBN-139780802086709

eBay Product ID (ePID)30215827

Product Key Features

Number of Pages277 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRussian Literature, 1995-2002 : on the Threshold of a New Millennium

SubjectModern / 19th Century, European / Eastern (See Also Russian & Former Soviet Union), Russian & Former Soviet Union

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

AuthorNorman Shneidman

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

SeriesHeritage Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-484717

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal891.73/509

SynopsisWriters have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized between an increasingly prosperous minority and a very poor majority. This divide is also mirrored within the writing community, with some writers supporting conservative, nationalist pro-Soviet thinking, and others, liberal, democratic, pro-Western thought. N.N. Shneidman, in the tradition of his previous volumes - Soviet Literature in the 1970s; Soviet Literature in the 1980s; Russian Literature, 1988-1994- investigates the Russian literary scene with special emphasis on the relationship between thematic substance and the artistic quality of recently published prose. Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant. The future development of Russian literature may depend on general economic, political, and social factors, but a new generation of talented writers is fast moving past older forms of ideology and embracing new ways of thinking about Russia., Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized between an increasingly prosperous minority and a very poor majority. This divide is also mirrored within the writing community, with some writers supporting conservative, nationalist pro-Soviet thinking, and others, liberal, democratic, pro-Western thought. N.N. Shneidman, in the tradition of his previous volumes - Soviet Literature in the 1970s ; Soviet Literature in the 1980s ; Russian Literature, 1988-1994 - investigates the Russian literary scene with special emphasis on the relationship between thematic substance and the artistic quality of recently published prose. Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant. The future development of Russian literature may depend on general economic, political, and social factors, but a new generation of talented writers is fast moving past older forms of ideology and embracing new ways of thinking about Russia., Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant.

LC Classification NumberPG3098.4.S473 2004