TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffiths, Frederick T.
AU  - Rabinowitz, Stanley J.
AB  - "Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin’s classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through readings of Gogol’s Dead Souls—a uniquely problematic work, and one which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic—Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this book redefines “epic”.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt1zxshz3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 641422
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 785776753
KW  - Arts
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Dead Souls
KW  - Fyodor Dostoevsky
KW  - Homer
KW  - Leo Tolstoy
KW  - Mikhail Bakhtin
KW  - Nikolai Gogol
KW  - Rome
KW  - Russia
KW  - Virgil
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/637a8a9c-f6d2-4159-9b26-45bd22da47b6/641422.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30919
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PP  - Boston, MA
PY  - 2011-04-01
SN  - 9781618116826;9781618119223
TI  - Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternaknull
ER  - 
