Poverty of the Imagination

Poverty of the Imagination
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780810116924
ISBN-13 : 0810116928
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Book Synopsis Poverty of the Imagination by : David Herman

Download or read book Poverty of the Imagination written by David Herman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primal scene of all nineteenth-century western thought might involve an observer gazing at someone poor, most commonly on the streets of a great metropolis, and wondering what the spectacle meant in human, moral, political, and metaphysical terms. For Russia, most of whose people hovered near the poverty line throughout history, the scene is one of special significance, presenting a plethora of questions and possibilities for writers who wished to depict the spiritual and material reality of Russian life. How these writers responded, and what their portrayal of poverty reveals and articulates about core values of Russian culture, is the subject of this book, which offers a compelling look into the peculiar convergence in nineteenth-century Russian literature of ideas about the poor and about the processes of art.


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