Russian Romanticism Research Articles

"A Journey to the Island of Love" or What Is the Russian Romance?

The destiny of the Russian romance has had everything in it: it has experienced both mindless praise and thoughtless abuse, but it has survived all the same. People revelled in it to the point of self-forgetfulness, others have persecuted it as an uncivilized vestige of the past; it was dumped on the philistines, reconquered for high art, again dismissed and then resurrected, although to become extinct was the furthest from its intentions; it is a tenacious rascal!

The Ardis Anthology of Russian Romanticism. Edited by Christine Rydel. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1984. 536 pp. Illustrations. Photographs. $42.50, cloth. $9.50, paper.

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The Exotic Prisoner in Russian Romanticism

Besides new themes of alienation and desires for self-fulfillment, European Romanticism brought to Russian literature the congenial themes of captivity and exotic worlds. Between 1820 and 1840 there developed an enormous literature with hosts of prisoners in exotic locales in the Caucasus. Loneliness and desire for freedom competed with elaborate descriptions of unknown peoples - Chechens, Georgians, Tatars and Circassians - to produce a literature of unparalleled brilliance, brought to a dazzling culmination by Lermontov's Bela in 1839. The exotic prisoner theme with its exotic trappings then disappears, leaving as its heritage the powerful themes of loneliness and introspection which other writers were subsequently to give their own unique treatment.

Russian Romantic Fiction

Russian Romantic Fiction

Gilded Guilt: Confession in Russian Romantic Prose

Gilded Guilt: Confession in Russian Romantic Prose

Spook or Spoof? The Structure of the Supernatural in Russian Romantic Tales

Spook or Spoof? The Structure of the Supernatural in Russian Romantic Tales

Spook or Spoof?: The Structure of the Supernatural in Russian Romantic Tales

Spook or Spoof?: The Structure of the Supernatural in Russian Romantic Tales

Russian Romanticism. Studies in the Poetic Codes

Russian Romanticism. Studies in the Poetic Codes

Me Eum Esse: Valerii Briusov and the Caucasus Tradition in Russian Literature

Mention of the Caucasus tradition in Russian literature instantly evokes the names of Lermontov, Pushkin, and Bestuzhev-Marlinskii from the first half of the nineteenth century and Tolstoi from the second. In the twentieth, works of Pasternak, Maiakovskii, and possibly Nabokov's Ada stem from Lermontov's contribution. However, an intriguing and integral link in this chain that is less often mentioned is Valerii Briusov's 1897 collection of poetry Me eum esse.l Throughout the nineteenth century the young Russian Romantic, banished to asiatic Russia for duelling or other less pardonable political sins, may have found comfort in wild scenery and wilder men and women. Certainly he became a fixture in nineteenth-century fiction and poetry. When Tolstoi sent Olenin south to the Cossacks, he meant to disabuse his hero of one set of Romantic conceptions and brought him home with another. And for successive generations Lermontov's Demon hovered over all. Certainly this was true for twenty-two-year-old Briusov. His schoolboy notebooks were full of imitations of Lermontov.2 Later he offered him

A Romantic Idealist Notion in Russian Romantic Criticism

A Romantic Idealist Notion in Russian Romantic Criticism

The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin, with Critical Essays by Four Russian Romantic Poets

The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin, with Critical Essays by Four Russian Romantic Poets

The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin, with Critical Essays by Four Russian Romantic Poets. Edited and translated by Carl R. Proffer. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1970. xii, 308 pp. $8.95.

The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin, with Critical Essays by Four Russian Romantic Poets. Edited and translated by Carl R. Proffer. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1970. xii, 308 pp. $8.95.

Review Notices : The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin, with Critical Esasys by Four Russian Romantic Poets. Edited and translated by Carl R. Proffer. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. 1970. xii+308 pp. £4.25. Pushkin on Literature. Selected, translated and edited by Tatiana Wolff. London : Methuen. 1971. xviii+554 pp. £7.5°

Review Notices : The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin, with Critical Esasys by Four Russian Romantic Poets. Edited and translated by Carl R. Proffer. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. 1970. xii+308 pp. £4.25. Pushkin on Literature. Selected, translated and edited by Tatiana Wolff. London : Methuen. 1971. xviii+554 pp. £7.5°

The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin. With Critical Essays by Four Russian Romantic Poets

The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin. With Critical Essays by Four Russian Romantic Poets

The CriticalProseof AlexanderPushkin;WithCriticalEssaysbyFour Russian Romantic Poets, Edited and Translated by Carl R. Proffer, Bloomington, Indiana and London: Indiana University Press, 1969. 308 pp.

The CriticalProseof AlexanderPushkin;WithCriticalEssaysbyFour Russian Romantic Poets, Edited and Translated by Carl R. Proffer, Bloomington, Indiana and London: Indiana University Press, 1969. 308 pp.