Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz

Novel Epics. Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narrative

Northwestern University Press, 1990.

Soft cover, 184 pp.

Novel Epics reassesses the origins of the nineteenth-century Russian novel, challenging the Lukács-Bakhtin theory of epic. Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz take the Russian novel out of a specifically European context and show that it developed as a means of reconnecting that narrative form with its origins in classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through readings of Gogol's Dead Souls and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, this book redefines "epic" and points to a new understanding of the sweep of Russian literature as a whole.

Item #1785
ISBN: 0810109018

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