Barabtarlo, Gennady (Ed.): Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia. New York, Oxford 2000
Journal
Comparative Literature Studies
ISSN
0010-4132
ISSN-Digital
1528-4212
Type
book review
Date Issued
2001-09-29
Author(s)
Abstract
American universities often combine their German and Russian Departments--probably out of a misty notion that both cultures are situated somewhere in North-eastern Europe and use difficult languages. There are, of course, many more common features between Russian and German culture, but so far especially in the Angloamerican context little has been done to elucidate this interesting and versatile relation. Gennady Barabtarlo's reader with 18 contributions is one of the first attempts to present this problem to an American academic audience. A conceptual problem of this collection of articles lies, however, in its excessively broad range of topics: It covers over 200 years, from the Enlightenment to Soviet prison literature. It would have probably been more revealing to focus all the contributions thematically on one century or one specified aspect of the German-Russian cultural encounter.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Publisher place
University Park, PA
Volume
38
Number
3
Start page
257
End page
260
Pages
4
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
59587
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