000			01889cam a22002657a 4500
008			120113s2011 onc b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781442643437
020			_a1442643439
040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aPG3098.3 _bS822 F 2011
100	1		_aSteiner, Lina, _9212004
245	1	0	_aFor humanity's sake : _bthe Bildungsroman in Russian culture / _cLina Steiner.
260			_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c2011.
300			_a284 p.
505			_aHKBU Library
520			_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.
520			_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.
520			_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.
650		0	_aRussian fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. _9212005
650		0	_aNational characteristics, Russian, in literature. _9212006
650		6	_aRoman russe _y19e siècle _xHistoire et critique. _9212007
650		6	_aRusses dans la littérature. _9212008
900			_a = C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
999			_c109803 _d109803