Chekhov and Russian Religious Culture: Poetics of the Marian Paradigm

by Julie De Sherbinin

Chekhov and Russian Religious Culture is an innovative study of the Virgin Mary and the saintly harlots--Mary of Egypt and Mary Magdalene--as a cultural paradigm encoded in Chekhov's prose. De Sherbinin establishes the authority of the Marian paradigm in nineteenth-century Russian culture with a comprehensive overview of salient religious and literary texts, then offers critical readings of more than fifteen Chekhov stories, including key works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810114046
• ISBN13: 9780810114043
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"