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Tables of Contents for Vicissitudes of Genre in the Russian Novel
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
A Note on Transliteration, Translation and References
xii
Introduction: Generic Resources
1
8
The Genre of Genres
1
2
The Generic Field
3
6
Reconstructing Fathers and Sons
9
34
The Dominance of Pastoral
10
4
Conventions and Conventionality in Life and Art
14
7
Pastoral ``Eyes''
21
2
Thematizing Genre, Genericizing Theme
23
13
Generic Inroads
36
7
A Religion of Virtue: The Tendentious Novel
43
44
Beginnings
44
7
Liberty and the Law of the Other
51
9
Hercules at the Crossroads
60
5
Humo Novus
65
2
Methods of Nihil-ism I: Self-Erasure
67
1
Methods of Nihil-ism II: the Ideal Nihil
68
3
Methods of Nihil-ism III: Building a Tabula Rasa
71
6
Generic Center
77
7
The Tendentious Vision
84
3
Dostoevsky's Demons and the Tendentious Tradition
87
40
Nihilist Babel
88
3
Nihilist Mask
91
6
The Paradox of Liberation
97
6
The Demons Hybrid
103
2
Boundaries of Satire in Demons
105
7
Word Made Flesh
112
9
Stavrogin, Hal, Pretender
121
6
Gorky's Mother and the Birth of a Genre
127
16
Calm Before the Storm
129
4
The New Faith
133
5
The Familiar and the Defamiliar
138
5
Concluding Remarks
143
8
Works Cited
151
12
Index
163