01768cam a22002297a 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059040000800074050002600082100001900108245008100127260005100208300001100259505001700270520030500287520048200592520026501074650005801339650005401397650005301451650003401504120113s2011    onc      b    001 0 eng    a9781442643437  a1442643439  aSDU00aPG3098.3bS822 F 20111 aSteiner, Lina,10aFor humanity's sake :bthe Bildungsroman in Russian culture /cLina Steiner.  aToronto :bUniversity of Toronto Press,c2011.  a284 p.  aHKBU Library  a"For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cultural identity.  aFor Humanity's Sake highlights the role of the critic Apollon Grigor'ev, who was first to formulate the difference between West European and Russian conceptions of national education or Bildung - which he attributed to Russia's special sociopolitical conditions, geographic breadth, and cultural heterogeneity. Steiner also shows how Grigor'ev's cultural vision served as the catalyst for the creative explosion that produced Russia's most famous novels of the 1860s and 1870s.  aPositing the classic Russian novel as an inheritor of the Enlightenment's key values - including humanity, self-perfection, and cross-cultural communication - For Humanity's Sake offers a unique view of Russian intellectual history and literature."--pub. desc. 0aRussian fictiony19th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aNational characteristics, Russian, in literature. 6aRoman russey19e sièclexHistoire et critique. 6aRusses dans la littérature.