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For Humanity's Sake : The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture by Lina Steiner, 1973- is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is For Humanity's Sake : The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture about?
For 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.
Who reads For Humanity's Sake : The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lina Steiner, 1973-
- Publisher
- University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781442643437
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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