Novel epics : Gogol, Dostoevsky, and national narrative
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Novel epics : Gogol, Dostoevsky, and national narrative
（Series in Russian literature and theory）
Northwestern University Press, c1990
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-175) and index
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Novel Epics reassesses the origins of the nineteenth-century Russian novel, challenging the Lukacs-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 readings of Gogol's Dead Souls and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, this book redefines ""epic"" and points to a new understanding of the sweep of Russian literature as a whole.
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