Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture 1917-1937

by Angela Brintlinger

Book Overview

In Writing a Usable Past, Brintlinger considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and emigre culture with the genre of biography in its various permutations, arguing that in the years after the Revolution, Russian writers looked to the great literary figures of the past to help them construct a post-Revolutionary present. In detailed looks at the biographical writing of Yuri Tynianov, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Mikhail...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810117681
• ISBN13: 9780810117686
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"