Rivers in Russian Literature

by Margaret Ziolkowski

Overview

Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers—the Dnieper, Volga, Neva, Don, and Angara. Each chapter traces, within a geographical and historical context, the evolution of the literary representation of one river. Imagination may endow a river with aesthetic or spiritual qualities; ethnic, national, or racial associations; or commercial or agricultural symbolism of many kinds. Russian literary responses to these five rivers have much to tell us about the society that produced them as well as the rivers they treat.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644531945
Publisher:	University of Delaware Press
Publication date:	11/17/2020
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Margaret Ziolkowski is Professor of Russian at Miami University (Ohio) and the author of Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore (Delaware).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. The Dnieper
2. The Volga
3. The Neva
4. The Don
5. The Angara
Conclusion
 

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent example of using folklore, literary, and historical sources to reveal past and present representations of Russian rivers."

Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted

"An excellent example of using folklore, literary, and historical sources to reveal past and present representations of Russian rivers."--Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Eastern Washington University, author of Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and the Mississippi Rivers

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