Anna A Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1036577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna A Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna A |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor in the Department of Languges, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7606-1596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Russian Woman
This chapter traces the evolution of a specific character type that began with Aleksandr Pushkin’s Tatiana Larina in Eugene Onegin . In the hands of future authors such as Ivan Turgenev and Fedor Dostoevskii, Tatiana came to represent an ideal for the Russian woman based on soulfulness, fidelity, and self-sacrifice. Russian women writers, too, used Tatiana as a model for their heroines. With the rise of the ‘woman question’ in the 1860s, the Russ…
The Novel I
This chapter explores the unique formal features of the Russian novel from its tentative beginnings in the eighteenth century, through its rise in the 1840s, to its full flowering in the second half of the nineteenth century. The founders of the tradition broke with western models, setting a precedent for pushing generic boundaries. This involved experimentation with formal features (novel-in-verse, mixing history and essays with fictional narrat…
Tolstoy in Context
Incest and the Limits of Family in the Nineteenth‐Century Russian Novel
While nineteenth‐century European literature is full of sibling incest, amorous liaisons between biological sisters and brothers are virtually non‐existent in the Russian tradition. However, Russian novels are replete with characters who are in love with someone like a sibling, be it a cousin, an in‐law, or a figurative adoptee or member of the household. Scholars have shied away from discussing this love that exists on the murky boundary of fami…
Darwin in the Novels
Although Tolstoy was deeply critical of Darwin in his notebooks, diaries, letters, and essays, his literary imagination was profoundly influenced by Darwinian theory. Tolstoy's major novels are Darwinian in form–modeling his ideals of gradual development, chance, and interconnectivity–while rejecting Darwin in their explicit discussions of his ideas. War and Peace is set in a pre‐Darwinian world where only the author, not the characters, has acce…
Lateral Plots
Moynihan's Moment
Journal Article Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight against Zionism as Racism Get access Gil Troy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. x, 357 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1295–1296, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau147 Published: 01 March 2014
Siblings in The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov has often been looked at as a study of the breakdown of fatherson relations, an interpretation justified by Dostoevsky's own words.In an often-quoted entry in his Writer's Diary from January 1876, Dostoevsky explained: "For a long time now I have had the goal of writing a novel about children in Russia today, and about their fathers too, of course, in their mutual relationship of today.... I will take fathers and children f…
Moynihan's Moment
Journal Article Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight against Zionism as Racism Get access Gil Troy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. x, 357 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1295–1296, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau147 Published: 01 March 2014
Darwin in the Novels
Although Tolstoy was deeply critical of Darwin in his notebooks, diaries, letters, and essays, his literary imagination was profoundly influenced by Darwinian theory. Tolstoy's major novels are Darwinian in form–modeling his ideals of gradual development, chance, and interconnectivity–while rejecting Darwin in their explicit discussions of his ideas. War and Peace is set in a pre‐Darwinian world where only the author, not the characters, has acce…
Siblings in The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov has often been looked at as a study of the breakdown of fatherson relations, an interpretation justified by Dostoevsky's own words.In an often-quoted entry in his Writer's Diary from January 1876, Dostoevsky explained: "For a long time now I have had the goal of writing a novel about children in Russia today, and about their fathers too, of course, in their mutual relationship of today.... I will take fathers and children f…
Siblings in The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov has often been looked at as a study of the breakdown of fatherson relations, an interpretation justified by Dostoevsky's own words.In an often-quoted entry in his Writer's Diary from January 1876, Dostoevsky explained: "For a long time now I have had the goal of writing a novel about children in Russia today, and about their fathers too, of course, in their mutual relationship of today.... I will take fathers and children f…
Moynihan's Moment
Journal Article Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight against Zionism as Racism Get access Gil Troy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. x, 357 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1295–1296, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau147 Published: 01 March 2014
Darwin in the Novels
Although Tolstoy was deeply critical of Darwin in his notebooks, diaries, letters, and essays, his literary imagination was profoundly influenced by Darwinian theory. Tolstoy's major novels are Darwinian in form–modeling his ideals of gradual development, chance, and interconnectivity–while rejecting Darwin in their explicit discussions of his ideas. War and Peace is set in a pre‐Darwinian world where only the author, not the characters, has acce…
Lateral Plots
Incest and the Limits of Family in the Nineteenth‐Century Russian Novel
While nineteenth‐century European literature is full of sibling incest, amorous liaisons between biological sisters and brothers are virtually non‐existent in the Russian tradition. However, Russian novels are replete with characters who are in love with someone like a sibling, be it a cousin, an in‐law, or a figurative adoptee or member of the household. Scholars have shied away from discussing this love that exists on the murky boundary of fami…
Tolstoy in Context
The Russian Woman
This chapter traces the evolution of a specific character type that began with Aleksandr Pushkin’s Tatiana Larina in Eugene Onegin . In the hands of future authors such as Ivan Turgenev and Fedor Dostoevskii, Tatiana came to represent an ideal for the Russian woman based on soulfulness, fidelity, and self-sacrifice. Russian women writers, too, used Tatiana as a model for their heroines. With the rise of the ‘woman question’ in the 1860s, the Russ…
The Novel I
This chapter explores the unique formal features of the Russian novel from its tentative beginnings in the eighteenth century, through its rise in the 1840s, to its full flowering in the second half of the nineteenth century. The founders of the tradition broke with western models, setting a precedent for pushing generic boundaries. This involved experimentation with formal features (novel-in-verse, mixing history and essays with fictional narrat…
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