{"product_id":"a-fallen-idol-is-still-a-god-9780804753708","title":"A Fallen Idol Is Still a God","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Fallen Idol is Still a God\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the works of the seminal nineteenth-century Russian author Mikhail Lermontov reflect the cultural transition out of Romanticism and the dynamics of cultural transition itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Allen's book is a fine addition to Golstein's and Powelstock's recent Lermontov scholarship, and one hopes that \u003ci\u003eA Fallen Idol\u003c\/i\u003e will find wide readership.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSlavic and East European Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a most impressive and elegantly written book. \u003ci\u003eA Fallen Idol Is Still a God\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully mature, insightful, and carefully thought-out study of Lermontov's texts and place in literary history. Specifically, it surpasses earlier studies in the precision and originality of its treatment of Lermontov's Romanticism.\" -- William Mills Todd III * Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003e\"How does one describe a cultural period between two epochs without saying, anachronistically, that things were tending towards where they wound up going? Can one describe the sense that one has outlived one set of practices and visions but not yet arrived at an alternative? Developing her own model of transitional periods, Allen shows how to describe a prominent writer's creative efforts when his fallen idol is still a god. In the process, she offers a compelling portrait of Lermontov, brings his works to life in a new way, and demonstrates that some of them are even better than we thought.\" -- Gary Saul Morson * Northwestern University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Preface\tiii  Acknowledgments and Note on the Text\tiii  @toc2:1.\tIntroduction: Cultural Transition and Its   Quandaries\t1  2.\tRomanticism and Its Twilight in Western Europe and   Russia\t000  3.\tThe Ambivalence of Influence: Lermontov's \"Not-  Byronism\"\t000  4.\tThe Attenuation of Romantic Evil: A Demon Undone\t000  5.\tIdeals to Ideology: Unmasking Masquerade\t000  6.\tPost-Romantic Anomie I: A Hero of Our Time and Its   Hero\t000  7.\tPost-Romantic Anomie II: The \"Post-\" Scripts of A Hero   of Our Time\t000  8.\tConclusion: Lermontov's Last Words\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884660502871,"sku":"9780804753708","price":49.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804753708.jpg?v=1722532906","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-fallen-idol-is-still-a-god-9780804753708","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}