Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia
Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

Author: Carol Ueland

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-14

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1793618305

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The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.

Biographical Sketches of Remarkable People, Chiefly From Personal Recollection
Biographical Sketches of Remarkable People, Chiefly From Personal Recollection

Author: Spencer T. Hall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780483306066

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Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Remarkable People, Chiefly From Personal Recollection: With Miscellaneous Papers and Poems Respecting the Miscellaneous Papers in the Second Section little need here be said, as they tell their own tale. Should any of his readers think the author has been too caustic in the papers on 44 Love of Distinction and Religious Differences, they may give him some quarter in consideration of the fact he now states, that he has positively known men having the reputation Of being martyrs for a cause jealous of other martyrs for the same cause sharing that reputation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies
Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies

Author: Simon Kӧvesi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 3030433749

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This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare’s first volume of poetry, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both affirms Clare’s importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival, theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clare’s world and work, the essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clare’s immersion in song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clare’s work, and offers both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to ongoing critical debates.