TY  - BOOK
AU  - Masing-Delic, Irene
AB  - This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” and “civilization” and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is “barbaric.” Another stance advocates the synthesis of “sense and sensibility” and the vision of “Apollo” and “Dionysus” creating a “civilized culture” together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers inherent in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt21h4wdr
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006478
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 769188616
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Nabokov
KW  - Conrad
KW  - Dostoevsky
KW  - Turgenev
KW  - Russian literature
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/53605440-e7c8-47c5-951d-78d487b79f92/1006478.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23665
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PY  - 2009-03-01
SN  - 9781618118516
TI  - Exotic Moscow under Western Eyesnull
ER  - 
