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Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. The Positive Hero in Russian literature. This classic text brings a period of Russian literature to life and demonstrates how the battles over the positive hero reappeared with dramatic clarity in the dissident literary movement after Stalin's death. Mathewson argues that the true continuity between nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian prose was to be found in this persistent conflict between contrary views of the real nature and proper uses of literature. This new edition, the first was published in 1958, includes chapters on Belinsky, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Sinyavsky. Mathewson (1918-1978) was professor of Russian and comparative literature at Columbia University.
CA: Stanford University Press 1975. 369 pages, index. Hardcover with dustjacket in a protective clear Mylar jacket cover. About fine. 1 copy only.
