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Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian Twentieth-Century Literature
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Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian Twentieth-Century Literature

by Irene Masing-Delic. 366 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Irene Masing-Delic

Publisher:

   Stanford University

Place of Publication:

  Stanford, CA  

Publication Year:

  1992
Subjects:   Death In Literature, Russian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Salvation In Literature, Immortality In Literature
Table of contents
Contents
ONE Introduction 1
TWO The Salvation Program 26
THREE General Contexts 38
FOUR Nikolai Fyodorov 76
FIVE Vladimir Solovyov 105
SIX Maksim Gorky 123
SEVEN Fyodor Sologub 155
EIGHT Aleksandr Blok 195
NINE Nikolai Ognyov 222
TEN Nikolai Zabolotsky 243
ELEVEN Two Parodies 287
TWELVE Conclusion 295
Notes 307
Works Cited 339
Index 353
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