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040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a891.709145 _bAUS _223
100	1		_aAustin, Paul M. _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe exotic prisoner in Russian romanticism / _cPaul M. Austin
264		1	_aNew York : _bPeter Lang, _c1997
300			_a214 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aBesides new themes of alienation and desires for self-fulfillment, European Romanticism brought to Russian literature the congenial themes of captivity and exotic worlds. Between 1820 and 1840 there developed an enormous literature with hosts of prisoners in exotic locales in the Caucasus.Loneliness and desire for freedom competed with elaborate descriptions of unknown peoples - Chechens, Georgians, Tatars and Circassians - to produce a literature of unparalleled brilliance, brought to a dazzling culmination by Lermontov's "Bela" in 1839. The exotic prisoner theme with its exotic trappings then disappears, leaving as its heritage the powerful themes of loneliness and introspection which other writers were subsequently to give their own unique treatment.
650		0	_aRussian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aRomanticism -- Russia.
650		0	_aPrisoners in literature.
650		0	_aHistory and criticism
650		0	_aRomanticism
650		0	_aPrisoners in literature
650		0	_aRussian literature
650		0	_aRussian literature, history and criticism
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