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The Golden Age of Russian Lit
A century of realism and reflection
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When exactly was "The "Golden Age"?
1830's - 1917
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The Golden Age of Russian Lit A century of realism and reflection - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Golden Age of Russian Lit A century of realism and reflection - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Courtesy of Google Images The Golden Age of Russian Lit A century of realism and reflection When exactly was "The "Golden Age"? 1830's - 1917 Courtesy of Google Images Most Notable Writers Pushkin - National Poet Gogol -
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Most Notable Writers
- Pushkin - National Poet
- Gogol - Satirist/Realist
- Turgenev - Short Story Writer
- Tolstoy - Greatest writer ever (?)
- Dostoevsky - Prolific Author and philosopher
- Chekhov - Short Story Writer
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Notable Works
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"We all come out of Gogol's 'Overcoat' "
- Dostoevsky
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Notable Works
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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
- Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
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Thematic Conflicts
- Reason VS individual desires
- State VS Individual
- Fate VS Free Will
- Educated Elite VS Peasantry/Bourgeois
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Literary Motifs
Occupation = Classification Suicide as a heroic means of escape The "everyman" and the anti-hero Revenge = Ultimate Reward Property as Prize ...
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Epigraph to Anna Karenina
Vengence is mine; I shall repay it - Romans 12:19
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Key Literary Movements
Often considered a subcategory of realism, it grew in popularity towards the end of the 19th century (a post Darwinian mindset) It is a literary style that hopes to depict life as honestly as possible, without any sense of idealism Naturalist authors tend to show characters who have "compulsive instincts toward sexuality, hunger, and/or the accumulation of goods " ("Naturalism")
Naturalism
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Populism emerged after the reforms of Alexander II University students were hugely influenced by "progressive" European attitudes and formed a socialist group called the Populists (Mooers) This literary movement "praised the soil and the earth" (Mooers) and addressed the needs/concerns of the peasants
Key Literary Movements
Populism
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Works Cited
Mooers, John. Russian Literature. Prenhart Publishers, New York, New York: 1996. Print "Naturalism" Literary Movements: Washington State
- University. 5 February 2014. Web
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