TY - GEN AU - Masing-Delic,Irene TI - Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes SN - j.ctt21h4wdr PY - 2009///0301 PB - Academic Studies Press KW - Literary studies: general KW - bicssc KW - Literature KW - Literary Criticism KW - Nabokov KW - Conrad KW - Dostoevsky KW - Turgenev KW - Russian literature N1 - Open Access N2 - This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” and “civilization” and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is “barbaric.” Another stance advocates the synthesis of “sense and sensibility” and the vision of “Apollo” and “Dionysus” creating a “civilized culture” together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers inherent in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23665/1/1006478.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23665/1/1006478.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23665/1/1006478.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26850 ER -