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Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alexander BurrySeries:Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin StudiesPublish date:2023-06-13Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299342104ISBN-10:299342107UPC:9780299342104Book Category:Drama, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:European, Russian & Soviet, RussiaSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCQ1S16FSY

The story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely inspirational, spin on the tale. Published in 1830, TheStone Guest is now recognized, with other Pushkin masterpieces, as part of the Russian literary canon. Alexander Burry traces the influence of Pushkin's brilliant innovations to the legend, which he shows have proven repeatedly fruitful through successive ages of Russian literature, from the Realist to the Silver Age, Soviet, and contemporary periods. Burry shows that, rather than creating a simple retelling of an originally religious tale about a sinful, consummate seducer, Pushkin offered open-ended scenes, re-envisioned and complicated characters, and new motifs that became recursive and productive parts of Russian literature, in ways that even Pushkin himself could never have predicted.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299342104ISBN-10:299342107UPC:9780299342104Book Category:Drama, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:European, Russian & Soviet, RussiaSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCQ1S16FSY
Alexander Burry, an associate professor of Slavic and East European languages and cultures at The Ohio State University, is also the author of Multi-mediated Dostoevsky: Transposing Novels into Opera, Film, and Drama.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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