{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-the-russian-novel-9780197520857","title":"The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel","description":"The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own tradition and asserts its own identity as a literary form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo read a Russian novel often requires the fortitude to traverse many hundreds of pages and to consider profound political, philosophical, and metaphysical questions. The best-known Russian novels are also compulsively readable, providing a fascinating window into Russian culture and society at different historical periods. Readers of Russian novels marvel at the fictional world-building of innovative writers who created compelling characters and settings, realized through brilliant storytelling and stylistic virtuosity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMajor Russian novelists such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nabokov continue to be popular and to carry intellectual prestige. But the tradition of the Russian novel extends well beyond these familiar authors and their works. This Oxford Handbook draws from a valuable tradition of critical commentary dating back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and builds upon important earlier scholarship but significantly updates our understanding of the Russian novel: showcasing newer interpretive paradigms, considering works outside the canon, and extending the story of the Russian novel through Soviet times and up to the varied literary landscape of the present. The chapters also explore an increasingly expansive view of what constitutes a Russian novel, part of ongoing efforts to communicate our evolving understanding of the tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulie Buckler \u003c\/strong\u003ehas spent her academic career at Harvard. She works on nineteenth-century Russian literature, performing arts, and urban cultures. Buckler is the author of two award-winning books: \u003cem\u003eThe Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia\u003c\/em\u003e (Stanford, 2000) and \u003cem\u003e Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityscape \u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton, 2005). In addition to \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel\u003c\/em\u003e, Buckler has also co-edited two other collection of essays: \u003cem\u003eRites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe \u003c\/em\u003e (Northwestern, 2013) and \u003cem\u003eRussian Performances: Word, Object, Action \u003c\/em\u003e(Wisconsin, 2018). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Justin Weir \u003c\/strong\u003e has been a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University since 2000. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian novels, literary theory, and Soviet film. His publications include a volume of translations edited and translated with Timothy Langen (\u003cem\u003eEight Russian Plays\u003c\/em\u003e, Northwestern UP, 2000), and two monographs devoted to Russian novelists: \u003cem\u003e The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Nabokov, Pasternak, and Bulgakov \u003c\/em\u003e(Northwestern UP, 2002), and \u003cem\u003e Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative \u003c\/em\u003e (Yale UP, 2011). A Russian translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Author as Hero \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Academic Studies Press in 2022.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51811641622802,"sku":"9780197520857","price":236.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c1264ac-8b17-4e03-bcb6-989f37883156.jpg?v=1766487207","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-russian-novel-9780197520857","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}