From the idyll to the novel : Karamzin's sentimentalist prose / Gitta Hammarberg
1991, 1st edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #428467
ISBN: 0521383102
Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Notes on the text; 1 The literary and intellectual context; 2 Theory of Sentimentalism; A Bakhtinian theory of narrator; Typology of verbal features marking narrator/narratee; 3 The literary model: the idyll; Karamzin's early Sentimentalist idylls of vicarious experience; Karamzin's early Sentimentalist idylls of personal experience; 4 The extra-literary model: salon trifles; The dedication; The compliment; The game; The anecdote; 5 Serious Sentimental tales: narrator as narratee; Complete fragments; Incomplete fragments. 6 Humorous Sentimental tales: narrator as parodistA humorous Sentimental fairy tale; A humorous Sentimental historical tale; A humorous Sentimental confession; A Sentimental novel; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Subjects: Karamzin, Nikola Mikha lovich 1766-1826 Criticism and interpretation. Sentimentalism in literature. Russian prose literature 18th century History and criticism. Russian prose literature History and criticism 18th century.
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