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| List of illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Critical models, committed readers, and three Russian Ideas | |
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| Literary critics and their public goods | |
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| Three Russian Ideas | |
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| Heroes and their plots | |
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| Righteous persons | |
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| Fools | |
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| Frontiersmen | |
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| Rogues and villains | |
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| Society's misfits in the European style | |
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| The heroes we might yet see | |
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| Traditional narratives | |
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| Saints' lives | |
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| Folk tales (Baba Yaga, Koshchey the Deathless) | |
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| Hybrids: folk epic and Faust tale | |
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| Miracle, magic, law | |
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| Western eyes on Russian realities: the eighteenth century | |
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| Neoclassical comedy and Gallomania | |
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| Chulkov's Martona: life instructs art | |
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| Karamzin's "Poor Liza" | |
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| The astonishing nineteenth century: Romanticisms | |
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| Pushkin and honor | |
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| Duels | |
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| Gogol and embarrassment | |
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| Pretendership | |
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| Realisms: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov | |
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| Biographies of events, and biographies that are quests for the Word | |
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| Time-spaces (Dostoevsky and Tolstoy) | |
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| Dostoevsky and books | |
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| Tolstoy and doing without words | |
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| Poets and novelists (Dostoevsky and Nekrasov) | |
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| Anton Chekhov: lesser expectations, smaller forms | |
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| Symbolist and Modernist world-building: three cities, three novels, and the Devil | |
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| The fin de siecle: Solovyov, Nietzsche, Einstein, Pavlov's dogs, political terrorism | |
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| Modernist time-spaces and their modes of disruption | |
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| City myths: Petersburg, Moscow, OneState | |
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| The Stalin years: socialist realism, anti-fascist fairy tales, wilderness | |
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| What was socialist realism? | |
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| Cement and construction (Fyodor Gladkov) | |
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| The Dragon and destruction (Evgeny Shvarts) | |
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| Andrei Platonov and suspension | |
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| The "right to the lyric" in an Age of Iron | |
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| Coming to terms and seeking new terms: from the first Thaw (1956) to the end of the millennium | |
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| The intelligentsia and the camps (Solzhenitsyn) | |
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| The Underground Woman (Petrushevskaya) | |
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| Three ways for writers to treat matter (Sorokin, Pelevin, Akunin) | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Guide to further reading | |
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| Index | |