Beschreibung:
This much-needed volume focuses on the various ways in which the Classics have influenced Russian literature at particularly significant junctures.
Introduction to the series. Introduction. 1. Thunder Imagery and the Turn Against Horace in Derzhavin's ''Evgeniyu, Zhizn' Zvanskaya'' (1807) by Charles Byrd 2. Mediating the Distance: Prophecy and Alterity in Greek Tragedy and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' by Naomi Rood 3. The Source of Andrei Bely's Literary Mifotvorchestvo: 'The Case of the Ableukhovs' by Mary Jo White 4. Hellenism, Culture and Christianity: The Case of Vyacheslav Ivanov and his ''Palinode'' of 1927 by Pamela Davidson 5. Soviet Russia Through the Lens of Classical Antiquity: An Analysis of Greco-Roman Allusions and Thought in the Oeuvre of Vasilii Grossman by Frank Ellis 6. Classical Motifs in the Poetry of Alexksandr Kushner by David N. Wells 7. The Wandering Greek: Images of Antiquity in Joseph Brodsky by Dan Ungurianu.