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A fallen idol is still a god [electronic resource] : Lermontov and the quandaries of cultural transition / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.

By: Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2007Description: xii, 286 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich, 1814-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation | Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich, 1814-1841. Geroĭ nashego vremeni | Romanticism -- RussiaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 891.71/3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Cultural transition and its quandaries -- Romanticism and its twilight in Western Europe and Russia -- The ambivalence of influence : Lermontov's "not-Byronism" -- The attenuation of romantic evil : a demon undone -- Ideals to ideology : unmasking Masquerade -- Post-romantic anomie I : a Hero of our time and its hero -- Post-romantic anomie II : the "post-" scripts of A hero of our time -- Lermontov's last words.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index.

Cultural transition and its quandaries -- Romanticism and its twilight in Western Europe and Russia -- The ambivalence of influence : Lermontov's "not-Byronism" -- The attenuation of romantic evil : a demon undone -- Ideals to ideology : unmasking Masquerade -- Post-romantic anomie I : a Hero of our time and its hero -- Post-romantic anomie II : the "post-" scripts of A hero of our time -- Lermontov's last words.

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