Novel Epics reassesses the origins of the nineteenth-century Russian novel, challenging the Lukacs-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.
- ISBN10 0810109018
- ISBN13 9780810109018
- Publish Date 1 August 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 November 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184
- Language English