...Clare R. Goldfarb Soviet Russian Literature: Writers and Problems 1917–1977 , Second Revised Edition. By Slonim Marc . New York : Oxford University Press , 1977 . Pp. viii , 437 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 260 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Thomas C. Winner Modern Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Present . By Slonim Marc . New York : Oxford University Press , 1953 . Pp. 467 . $6.80 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 149 Milton and Jerusalem, receive rather sketchy treatment...

...Thomas G. Wiener 148 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Epic of Russian Literature: From Its Origins through Tolstoy. By Marc Slonim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Pp. vii, 367. $5.00. This volume is a welcome addition to the growing body of American materials on Russian literature...

...Thomas G. Winner Three Loves of Dostoyevsky . By Slonim Marc . New York-Toronto : Rinehart , 1955 . xi , 300 pp. $4.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly various journals. Professor Carpenter skilfully maintains a balance be­...

... peace and quiet and, according to Mr. Slonim, sexual happiness. This story of the great novelist s intimate private life frequently reads like a Dostoyevskyan crea­ tion, peopled as it is by characters who seem strikingly related to those we know from Dostoyevsky s own frenzied novels. Looking...

... nor diametrically opposed. LODWICK HARTLEY Modern Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Present. By Marc Slonim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. Pp. 467. $6.80. The present volume supplements the author s earlier Efic of Russian Literature (1950). In this new study the author begins...

... nineteenth- century Americans as romantics who imitated the European movement. Although the thesis that the democratic idea in some way shapes our greatest literature is not new, Professor Carpenter gives it a new force and con­ creteness. LOUIS J. BUDD Three Loves of Dostoyevsky. By Marc Slonim. New York...

... Slonim ($2.25). Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, Introduction by Kathleen Raine ($2.25). Among the Paperbacks 281 Recollections of the Civil War, by Charles A. Dana, is reprinted with an Introduction by Paul M. Angle, by Collier Books (95 cents). The University of Nebraska Press s...

... in this period, as the author points out, one could write a few generalized plots, which need only be varied by the insertion of the proper name of the protagonists, the proper locale, factory or collective farm. Mr. Slonim, however, does not regard this unhappy situation as totally irredeemable or irreparable...

... Francophile phase before Pushkin, and Irish literature, Anglophile before Yeats and the Celtic Renaissance; see Brooks, The Flowering of New England, pp. 1-45, Marc Slonim, The Epic of Russian Literature: From Its Origins Through Tolstoy (New York, 1950), p. 22, and, for example, Thomas Flanagan, The Irish...

... method of speaking of literature by cartridgefuls of writers names finally consolidated itself at the time. This is no surprise: the This formulation is strikingly close to Marc Slonim s classic" judgment on Zhdanovite literature: The landscape of Russian literature between 1945 and 1953 looked...

... Slawistischer Almanach 24 (1990): 115-26. 7 From Furmanov to Sholokhov: The Classics ofSocialist Realism, ed. Nicholas Luker (Ann Arbor, 1988), 9. 8 Ibid., 11. The quote comes from Marc Slonim, Soviet Russian Literature: Writers and Problems, 1917 1977 (New York, 1977), 169. 9 Luker, ed., Classics of Socialist...