Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Offord, Derek
• Rjéoutski, Vladislav
• Argent, Gesine

Titel

Perceptions of bilingualism in the classical Russian novel

Ist Teil von

• The French Language in Russia, 2018, p.519-570

Ort / Verlag

The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• By the age of Alexander II, Russian prose writers – inspired by the example that Pushkin and others had set in the 1830s – had fully developed their own idiom. They, no less than Pushkin and other early nineteenth-century poets of the so-called Pushkin Pleiad, were responsible for the creation of a literature written in the vernacular which became the outstanding manifestation of Russia’s cultural maturity and the clearest expression of the new Russian nationhood. It was important to prose writers, as they strove for cultural autonomy, to free themselves from subservience to foreign literary models. It also helped them,