Rethinking Russian Autobiography
Guest Editor: Marina Balina
Table of Contents
“Introduction: Russian Autobiographies of the Twentieth Century: Fictions of the Self” by Marina Balina
“Revamping ‘Family Chronicles’: Ivan Bunin’s The Life of Arsen’ev” by Thomas Gaiton Marullo
“Maksim Gorky’s Autobiographical Trilogy: The Lure of Myth and the Power of Fact” by Andrew Barratt
“(Autobio/Bio/Hagio)graphy; or, Life as Genre: Alesha Peshkov–Maksim Gorky—Mark Donski” by Evgeny Dobrenko
“Angels in the Stalinist House: Nadezhda Madelstam, Lidiia Chukovskaia, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Russian Women’s Autobiography” by Sarah Pratt
“The Rural Writer’s Imagined Childhood: Poetry and Politics” by Kathleen Parthé
“Vasilii Shukshin’s Liubavin Family Chronicle and the Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness” by John Givens
“(Pseudo-)Autobiography in Brodsky’s Lyrical Poetry” by Piotr Fast
“Self-Portrait on a Timeless Background: Transformations of the Autobiographical Mode in Russian Postmodernism” by Mark Lipovetsky
Reviews
St. Teresa of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life by Carole Slade (U of California P, 1995). Reviewed by Kathleen Ashley
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