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050 00 $aPG3015.5.D47$bC66 2001
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100 1 $aConnolly, Julian W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82040468
245 14 $aThe intimate stranger :$bmeetings with the devil in nineteenth-century Russian literature /$cJulian W. Connolly.
260 $aNew York :$bPeter Lang,$c2001.
263 $a0108
300 $a[xi], 308 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMiddlebury studies in Russian language and literature ;$vvol. 26
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-302) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: The Nature of the Beast --$g2.$tThe Devil Stirs: First Encounters --$g3.$tGogol's Early Demons: From Dikanka to Mirgorod --$g4.$tEluding Definition: The Devil in St. Petersburg --$g5.$tAleksandr Pushkin and the Spirit of Seduction --$g6.$tMikhail Lermontov and the Demon Spurned --$g7.$tLengthening Shadows: Fedor Dostoevskii's Devils --$g8.$tConflict at the Crisis Point: The Brothers Karamazov --$g9.$tAn Attempt at Exorcism: Tolstoi's Late Fiction --$g10.$tConclusion: The Indispensable Demon.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aAsking 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aRussian literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115990
650 0 $aDevil in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037381
650 0 $aDemonology in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036670
830 0 $aMiddlebury studies in Russian language and literature ;$vv. 26.
852 00 $bglx$hPG3015.5.D47$iC66 2001