50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories
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The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, 50 Writers brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the 20th century. It includes the prose of officially recognised writers and dissidents, well-known and neglected or forgotten ones, and new authors at the end of the 20th century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in the 20th century: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the 20th century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.
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Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
Publication Date: 17 Mar 2011
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781936235148
About
Valentina Brougher (PhD University of Kansas) is Professor Emerita Department of Slavic Languages Georgetown University. Her articles on 20th century Russian writers have been published in major academic journals and her translations of 20th century prose have appeared in anthologies and special editions. Mark Lipovetsky (PhD Ural State University Russia) has lived in the USA since 1996 and is an associate professor of Russian Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of six monographs numerous articles in major American and Russian journals and recipient of many grants and fellowships including a Fulbright SSRC and Leverhulme (UK). Frank Miller (PhD Indiana University) is a professor of Slavic Languages at Columbia University and coordinator of the Columbia-Barnard College Russian language program. He is the author or coauthor of several widely-used Russian textbooks and translator of Russian prose.