Routledge, London, 2001. — 282 p.
Книга представляет собой сборник статей по основным главам истории
российской литературы, написанных ведущими западными славистами.
Книга будет интересна всем, кто интересуется русской литературой,
ее связями с мировым литературным процессом и современным
европейским взглядом на нее. Книгу завершает подробно составленная
библиография.
Содержание книги: Neil Cowell "Introduction: Russian
literature – the first thousand years", Robin
Milner-Gulland "Old Russian literature and its heritage",
W. Gareth Jones "Russian literature in the eighteenth
century", Faith Wigzell "Folklore and Russian literature",
Ruth Coates "Religious writing in post-Petrine Russia",
A.D.P. Briggs "Pre-revolutionary Russian theatre",
David M. Bethea "Pushkin: from Byron to Shakespeare",
Donald Rayfield "The Golden Age of Russian poetry",
Richard Freebo "The classic Russian novel", Ellen
Chances "The superfluous man in Russian literature", Derek
Offord "Nineteenth-century Russian thought and literature",
Michael Basker "The Silver Age: Symbolism and
Post-Symbolism", Catriona Kelly "Women’s writing in
Russia", Michael O’Toole "Russian literary theory: from
the Formalists to Lotman", Boris Lanin "Experiment and
emigration: Russian literature, 1917–1953", G.S. Smith
"Russian poetry since 1945", Birgit Beumers
"Post-revolutionary Russian theatre", David Gillespie
"Thaws, freezes and wakes: Russian literature, 1953–1991", Alla
Latynina and Martin Dewhirst "Post-Soviet Russian literature".