A Fallen Idol Is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition

Elucidates The Historical Distinctiveness And Significance Of The Seminal Nineteenth-century Russian Poet, Playwright, And Novelist Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov (1814-1841). This Book Does So By Demonstrating That Lermontov's Works Illustrate The Condition Of Living In An Epoch Of Transition. Cultural Transition And Its Quandaries -- Romanticism And Its Twilight In Western Europe And Russia -- The Ambivalence Of Influence : Lermontov's Not-byronism -- The Attenuation Of Romantic Evil : A Demon Undone -- Ideals To Ideology : Unmasking Masquerade -- Post-romantic Anomie I : A Hero Of Our Time And Its Hero -- Post-romantic Anomie Ii : The Post- Scripts Of A Hero Of Our Time -- Lermontov's Last Words. Elizabeth Cheresh Allen. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References (p. [265]-277) And Index. English