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The positive hero in Russian literature
Title:
The positive hero in Russian literature
Author:
Mathewson, Rufus W.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, 1958.
Physical Description:
xii, 364 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Hero and the heritage -- Belinsky: "My heroes are the destroyers" -- Dobrolyubov: beyond the superfluous man -- Chernyshevsky: "the salt of the salt of the Earth" -- Rebuttal I: the theory -- Rebuttal II: Hamlet and Don Quixote -- Marxism, realism, and the hero -- Complete and incomplete men -- Lenin and Gorky: the turning point -- Leather men -- Two bureaucracies -- In conclusion: four novels.
Format :
Book