Yankees in Petrograd, bolsheviks in New York : America and Americans in Russian literary perception

Yankees in Petrograd, bolsheviks in New York : America and Americans in Russian literary perception / Milla Fedorova ; Shaun Allshouse, design.

In Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?, one of the protagonists feigns suicide and goes to America. In Fedor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Svidrigailov announces: "I'm going to America," then commits suicide. When in America - "on the other shore," as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fedorova, Milla (Author)
Other Authors: Allshouse, Shaun (Designer)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: DeKalb, Illinois : NIU Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Americans in literature.
Authors, Russian > Travel > United States.
Travelers' writings, Russian > 19th century > History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, Russian > 20th century > History and criticism.
Americans in literature
Authors, Russian > Travel
Travelers' writings, Russian
United States > Description and travel > In literature.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bolsheviks in New York. Pre-revolutionary discoveries of America : Korolenko and Gorky ; Post-revolutionary Columbuses : Esenin and Mayakovsky ; Automobile journeys of the 1930s : Pilniak and Ilf and Petrov
  • The American text of Russian literature. Recurrent subtexts and motifs in American travelogues
  • Yankees in Petrograd. Reverse American travelogues
  • Conclusion : from Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca.

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