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Narrative and Desire in Russian Literature most readers will be the works by Mariya Zhukova and Elena Gan, two of the cohort of women writers who began to publish in the 1830s, but who have been scarcely republished since, and have had almost no critical writing devoted to them. Secondly, my own critical concerns have moved on somewhat. I now concentrate more specificaHy and directly on gender issues, looking at masculinity as weH as femininity, and have tried to incorporate some of the most recent developments of feminist literary criticism, especiaHy those to be found at the interface of semiotics and psychoanalysis. At the same time I have attempted to utilise a more typological approach to narrative (and to narrativity), to unearth the ancient patterns and models which underlie even relatively sophisticated works of fiction. I begin with Pushkin because it seems always necessary to begin with Pushkin. This truism, however, has a particular resonance for the present work. Pushkin not only stands as an enormous presence throughout nineteenth-century literature (and twentieth-century literature for that matter) but is also, by common consent, the father of modem Russian literature

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Author

Joe Andrew (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333521229

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Historical & Comparative

Updated

2026-03-24