Description
Book SynopsisRivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers—the Dnieper, Volga, Neva, Don, and Angara. Each chapter traces, within a geographical and historical context, the evolution of the literary representation of one river. Imagination may endow a river with aesthetic or spiritual qualities; ethnic, national, or racial associations; or commercial or agricultural symbolism of many kinds. Russian literary responses to these five rivers have much to tell us about the society that produced them as well as the rivers they treat.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Trade Review"An excellent example of using folklore, literary, and historical sources to reveal past and present representations of Russian rivers."— Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Eastern Washington University, author of Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and the Mississippi Rivers
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Dnieper
2. The Volga
3. The Neva
4. The Don
5. The Angara
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
