... by pointing out his modernist or symbolist proclivities. This article redefines Lu Xun’s realism by enlarging the scope of inquiry beyond “Diary” itself to scrutinize its main Russian intertexts: Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 story “Diary of a Madman” and Leonid Andreev’s 1904 novella Red Laugh . Examining...

... of the Russian novel. These difficulties, semantic and definitional, have long been with us and are not to be avoided by the compounding of terms, such as Donald Fanger’s “romantic realism,” or by Ernest Simmons’ latitudinarianism -based on distrust of efforts at definition-which permits him to shift...

...- century crisis of realism that we now call modernism. Georg Lukács’s Historical Novel, rst published in Russian in and Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis, rst published in German in are exemplary works of this kind. Both dwell on the modalities of nineteenth- century classical bourgeois realism...

.... $23.00. GENERAL Andrew, Joe. Writers and Society during the Rise of Russian Realism. Atlantic High- lands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1980. xv + 190 pp. $27.50. Aronson, Alex. Music and the Novel: A Study in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman...

... of the African American as Colonial Oppressed in Texts of the Soviet Inter-war Years .” Russian Review 75 : 368 – 85 . Clark Katerina . 2017 . “ Indian Leftist Writers of the 1930s Maneuver between India, London, and Moscow: The Case of Mulk Raj Anand and His Patron Ralph Fox .” Kritika 18...

... of Russian hospitality, while another places the character Pliushkin in the old lineage of literary misers and then demonstrates how the meaning of the miser type changed in the context of Russia’s emerging money economy and early realism’s accumulation of ostensibly nonsignifying details. This approach...

... pp. 26.50 guil- ders. Roston, Murray. Prophet and Poet: The Bible and the Growth of Romanticism. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965. 204 pp. $4.95. BOOKS KECEIVED 493 Simmons, Ernest J. Introduction to Russian...

...; arid the Russian formalists, who created artificial dis- tiiirtions between the fictional and the real, ignoring the fact that even tlie iiiojt extreme realism is a kind of artifice that “imposes its own logic and constraint on it5 historical subject matter” and so achieves “a form...

... of Russicrn Literature by D. S. Likhatchev (1952), unearthed positive types in the Russian literature of the tenth to the thirteenth centuries !’ Two novels which, because of their wide popularity, became the focal point of much of the discussion about positive and negative types, were Alexander...

... upon supervising and editing a word count of the magnitude of Norwegian Word Studies are numerous, and the thanks due Professor Haugen for completing the indices are many. SVERREARESTAD University of Washington An Outline of Modern Russian...

... than their American and European colleagues at keeping social and political reality at a distance. The literary background of Chinese postmodernism is as multifac- eted as China’s history of the last hundred years. First, there is socialist realism, including some Russian novels considered...

..., and Culture at the University of Toronto, where he teaches Russian/Soviet, Eastern European cultural history, comparative literature, and film. His recent works include How Life Writes the Book:Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia (1997) and the edited collections Late Soviet Culture...

... engaged the ideas raised in “Peripheral Realisms.” Scholars of the Argentine, Filipino, German, South African, and Zimbabwean novel, of Chinese and Indian memoir, of Hollywood film, of Hong Kong legal discourse, of Korean modernism, of Arab-Jewish poetics, and of Russian painting have revised our core...

... system. Thomas Lahusen is Canada Research Chair in History, Arts, and Culture at the University of Toronto, where he teaches Russian/Soviet, Eastern European cultural history, com- parative literature, and film. His recent works include How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism...

...), they also cannot be com- pletely divorced from Soviet culture. Despite these misgivings, The Making of the State Writer is an extremely important addition to the scholarship of Russian/Soviet history. Not only does Dobrenko strengthen our understanding of socialist realism, but he also contributes...

...,” “On Literary Guard,”2 and the various embodiments of the Asso- 1 Herman Ermolaev, Soviet Literary Theories, 1917–1934: The Genesis of Socialist Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963). 2 Ermolaev and others also use Onlitguardists. The term reflects the Russian neologisms Na...

...–1934: The Genesis of Socialist Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963). 2 Ermolaev and others also use Onlitguardists. The term reflects the Russian neologisms Na literaturnom postu and Napostovtsy, typical of their time (Ermolaev, 104). Bell and Lahusen Review...

... system. Thomas Lahusen is Canada Research Chair in History, Arts, and Culture at the University of Toronto, where he teaches Russian/Soviet, Eastern European cultural history, com- parative literature, and film. His recent works include How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism...

...,” “On Literary Guard,”2 and the various embodiments of the Asso- 1 Herman Ermolaev, Soviet Literary Theories, 1917–1934: The Genesis of Socialist Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963). 2 Ermolaev and others also use Onlitguardists. The term reflects the Russian neologisms Na...

...–1934: The Genesis of Socialist Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963). 2 Ermolaev and others also use Onlitguardists. The term reflects the Russian neologisms Na literaturnom postu and Napostovtsy, typical of their time (Ermolaev, 104). Bell and Lahusen Review...