The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Nearly all of the major authors of the period - Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - used images of devils to explore issues of human temptation, sin, and guilt in a troubled world. Asking fundamental questions - where does evil come from? when does it appear in characters' lives? - these writers created a remarkable array of demonic figures, ranging from grotesque demons to handsome nihilists. This book discusses the various literary, religious, and folkloric factors that influenced the representation of the demonic, and it investigates the profound, soul-shattering effects that a personal encounter with the demonic may have on an individual's life.
| ISBN: | 9780820455167 |
| Publication date: | 13th July 2001 |
| Author: | Julian W Connolly |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 308 pages |
| Series: | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Religion: general |
The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Nearly all of the major authors of the period - Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - used images of devils to explore issues of human temptation, sin, and guilt in a troubled world. Asking fundamental questions - where does evil come from? when does it appear in characters' lives? - these writers created a remarkable array of demonic figures, ranging from grotesque demons to handsome nihilists. This book discusses the various literary, religious, and folkloric factors that influenced the representation of the demonic, and it investigates the profound, soul-shattering effects that a personal encounter with the demonic may have on an individual's life.
The Intimate Stranger features in the following genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Religion: general
The Intimate Stranger is available in Hardback
The Intimate Stranger was written by Julian W Connolly and published by Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
The Intimate Stranger has 308 pages
Yes it is part of Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature series