The Russian Memoir: History and Literature

by Beth Holmgren

Throughout the development of modern Russian society, the memoir, with its dual agendas of individualized expression and reliable reportage, has maintained a popular and abiding national genre "contract" between Russian writers and readers. The essays in this volume seek to appreciate the literary construction of this much read, yet little analyzed, form and to explore its functions as interpretive history, social modelling, and political expression...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124289
• ISBN13: 9780810124288
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"