Pavlova A Double Life

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54911-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Russian Library

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pavlova, Karolina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heldt, Barbara

Green, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Barbara Heldt
A Double Life
Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Heldt Barbara:
Barbara heldt is Professor Emerita of Russian at the University of British Columbia. She is author of Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature, translator of Karolina Pavlova, A Double Life and Kozma Prutkov: The Art of Parody, and author of numerous articles and contributions to symposia on Russian literature.Karolina Pavlova, born Karolina Jaenisch in 1807, was a Russian poet and translator and presided over a famous Moscow literary salon. She died in Dresden in 1893, having abandoned Russia not because of tsarist oppression but because of hostile criticism of her poetry and her personal life. A Double Life is her major work.

Barbara Heldt is professor emerita of Russian at the University of British Columbia. Her books include Koz’ma Prutkov: The Art of Parody (1973) and Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature (1987).