The Routledge companion to russian literature edited by Neil Cornwell

Includes bibliographical references and index

Russian literature, the first thousand years / Neil Cornwell -- Old Russian literature and its heritage / Robin Milner-Gulland -- Russian literature in the eighteenth century / W. Gareth Jones -- Folklore and Russian literature / Faith Wigzell -- Religious writing in post-Petrine Russia / Ruth Coates -- Pre-revolutionary Russian theatre / A.D.P. Briggs -- Pushkin: from Byron to Shakespeare / David M. Bethea -- The golden age of Russian poetry / Donald Rayfield -- The classic Russian novel / Richard Freeborn -- The superfluous man in Russian literature / Ellen Chances -- Nineteenth-century Russian thought and literature / Derek Offord -- The silver age: symbolism and post-symbolism / Michael Basker -- Women's writing in Russia / Catriona Kelly -- Russian literary theory: from the formalists to Lotman / Michael O'Toole -- Socialist realism in Soviet literature / Katerina Clark -- Experiment and emigration: Russian literature, 1917-1953 / Boris Lanin -- Russian poetry since 1945 / G.S. Smith -- Post-revolutionary Russian theatre / Birgit Beumers -- Thaws, freezes and wakes: Russian literature, 1953-1991 / David Gillespie -- Post-soviet Russian literature / Alla Latynina ; Martin Dewhirst