Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 2, An Introduction to Russian Language and…

Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 2, An Introduction to Russian Language and LiteratureAuthor(s): Robert Auty, Dimitri Obolensky, Anthony Kingsford\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521280396, 978-0521280396\nSynopsis\nAn introduction, complete in one volume, to the development of Russian literature from medieval times to the 1970s. Each chapter has been specially commissioned for this volume and the writers are noted scholars in their fields. The essays focus on the Russian language, the history of Russian writing and printing, and predominantly on the growth of a native Russian literature. This 1977 volume is unusual in combining a comprehensive study of Russian and Soviet literature with an introduction to the Russian language and an extensive treatment of Russian and Soviet drama. It is directed in part at the general reader and will also be consulted as a standard reference guide in lib.