Memory and Literature: Intertextuality in Russian Modernism (Volume 87)

by Renate Lachmann, Anthony Wall (Translator)

A textual and theoretical analysis of key texts in Russian literature. In Memory and Literature, Renate Lachmann combines literary theory with textual analysis in a consideration of some of the major texts of Russian modernism. Reflecting on works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Nabokov, and lesser-known Russian writers, Lachmann goes beyond formalist approaches to literature by developing insights from structuralist and poststructuralist theory.

Lachmann argues that memory is crucial for a full understanding of the way literary writing functions, and explores memory as an essential concern in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian prose and poetry.

Throughout, Memory and Literature is rigorously formal, culturally astute, and stylistically brilliant, and is essential reading for those who enjoy Russian literature and literary criticism.

470 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 1997

About the author

Renate Lachman ugledna je slavistica i znanstvenica, sveučilišna profesorica u mirovini, članica Academia Europaea i članica Akademije znanosti u Heidelbergu. Završila je studij povijesti, filozofije i talijanskoga jezika. Hrvatski jezik počela je učiti krajem pedesetih godina prošloga stoljeća, započevši uspješnu znanstvenu karijeru prvom objavljenom knjigom, studijom o Ignjatu Đorđiću i slavenskom baroku (Köln/Graz, 1964). Autorica je četiriju i priređivačica još triju knjiga. Ova knjiga predstavlja izbor iz triju središnjih područja autoričinih znanstveno-teorijskih interesa.