{"product_id":"9781936235537","title":"Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak","description":"The authors read some of the classics in the Russian novelistic tradition against a critique of the Lukacs-Bakhtin view of epic, all the while demonstrating the modernity of epic as a literary mode and arguing how some key Russian novels challenge or outgrow their generic form to re-imagine or re-invent a new, monumental one. The chapters on Gogol's \"Dead Souls\", Dostoevsky's \"Brothers Karamazov\", Tolstoy's \"War and Peace\", and Pasternak's \"Doctor Zhivago\" have major implications for understanding the sweep of Russian literature as a whole, while the final chapter on Stalinist epic, which includes fresh insights on Anna Akhmatova and Nadezhda Mandelstam, considers other literary genres - the memoir and the narrative poem - against the background of the epic tradition. Teachers, graduate students, undergraduates as well as serious non-academic critics will profit from the original arguments which provide suggestions for re-reading Russian prose generally.","brand":"Frederick T. Griffiths","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47675112685886,"sku":"9781936235537","price":4612.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781936235537_b0142389-c727-4e4a-ad0d-cd1183a9dbec.jpg?v=1707653348","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781936235537","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}