Index:Russian literature by Kropotkin.djvu
CONTENTS Preface
The Russian Language—Early folk literature: Folklore — Songs—Sagas—Lay of Igor's Raid—Annals—Mongolian Invasion; its consequences—Correspondence between John IV. and Kurbskiy—Religious splitting—Avvakum's Memoirs—The eighteenth century—Peter I. and his contemporaries: Tretiakovskiy—Lomonésoff—Sumarokoff — The times of Catherine II: Derzhávin—Von Wizin—The Freemasons: Novikoff—Radischeff—Early nineteenth century: Karamzin and Zhukovskiy—The Decembrists — Ryléelf.
Pushkin—Beauty of form—Pushkin and Schiller—His youth; his exile; his later career and death—Fairy tales: Ruslan and Ludmila—His lyrics—"Byronism" — Drama—Evgheniy Onyeghin—Lermontoff—Pushkin or Lermontóff? His life—The Caucasus—Poetry of nature — Influence of Shelley—The Demon—Mtsyri—Love of Freedom—Pushkin and Lermontóff as prose-writers—Other poets and novelists of the same epoch.
Little Russia—Nights on a Farm near Dikanka and Mirgorod—Village life and humour—How Ivan Ivanovitch quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforytch—Historical novel: Taras Bulba—The Cloak—Drama: The Inspector-General — Its influence—Dead Souls: Main types—Realism in the Russian novel.
Turguéneff—The Character of his art—A Sportsman's Note-book—Pessimism in his early novels—His series of novels representing the leading types of Society: Rudin—Lavretskiy—Helen and Insaroff—Bazároff—Why Fathers and Sons was misunderstood—Hamlet and Don Quixote—Virgin Soil—Movement towards the people—Tolstóy—Childhood and Boyhood—During and after the Crimean War—Youth: in search of an ideal—Small stories—The Cossacks—Educational work—War and Peace—Anna Karenina—Religious crisis—His interpretation of the Christian teaching—Main points of Christian ethics—Latest works of art—Kreutzer Sonata—Resurrection.
Gontcharoff—Oblomoff—The Russian malady of Oblomoffdom—Is it exclusively Russian? The Precipice—Dostoyevskiy—His first novel—General character of his work—Memoirs from a Dead House—Down-trodden and Offended—Crime and Punishment—The Brothers Karamazoff—Nekrasoff—Discussions about his talent—His love of the people—Apotheosis of Woman—Other prose-writers of the same epoch—Serghei Aksakoff—Dal—Ivan Panaeff—Hvoschinskaya (V. Krestovskiy-pseudonyme)—Poets of the same epoch—Koltsoff—Nikitin—Pleschéeff—The admirers of pure art: Tutcheff; A. Maykoff; Scherbina; A. Fet—A. K. Tolstoy—The Translators.
Its origin—The Tsars Alexei and Peter I.—Sumarokoff—Pseudo-classical tragedies: Knyazhnin; Ozeroff—First comedies—The first years of the nineteenth century—Griboyedoff—The Moscow stage in the fifties—Ostrovskiy: his first dramas—The Thunderstorm—Ostrovskiy's later dramas—Historical dramas: A. K. Tolstoy—Other dramatic writers.
Their position in Russian literature—The early folknovelists—Grigirovitch—Marko Vovtchok—Danilevskiy—Intermediate period: Kokoreff; Pisemskiy; Potyekhin—Ethnographical researches—The realistic school: Pomyalovskiy—Ryeshetnikoff—Levitoff—Gleb Uspenskiy—Zlatovratskiy and Other folk-novelists: Naumoff—Zasodimskiy—Saloff—Nefedoff—Modern realism: Maxim Gorkiy.
Chapter VIII: Political Literature; Satire; Art-Criticism; Contemporary Novelists 263 Political Literature—Difficulties of censorship—The circles: Westerners and Slavophiles—Political literature abroad: Herzen—Ogaryoff—Bakunin—Lavroff—Stepniak—The Contemporary and Tchernyshevskiy—Satire: Schedrin (Saltykoff)—Art-Criticism—Its importance in Russia—Byelinskiy—Dobroluboff—Pisareff—Mihailovskiy—Tolstoy's What is Art? Contemporary Novelists: Oertel—Korolenko—Present drift of literature—Merezhovskiy—Boborykin—Potapenko—Tchehoff.
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