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Article: The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature Ed. by NEIL CORNWELL. London: Routledge. 2001. x+271pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]).
The somewhat ambitious task which this volume sets itself is to provide some insight into Russian literature over a mere thousand years--all in under 300 pages. Students are clearly the target market (most would hardly buy the weighty Reference Guide to Russian Literature which Cornwell edited in 1998, and in which thirteen of the twenty essays in this present edition appeared in sketchier form), and they will find this an intellectually substantive and very useful overview volume. The contributors have impeccable ...