Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narrative

by Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley Rabinowitz

Book Overview

Novel Epics reassesses the origins of the nineteenth-century Russian novel, challenging the Luk cs-Bakhtin theory of epic. Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz take the Russian novel out of a specifically European context and show that it developed as a means of reconnecting that narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810109018
• ISBN13: 9780810109018
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"