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Article: Pushkin's Tatiana.(Book Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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By Olga Peters Hasty. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Pp. xvii + 269. 15.95 [pounds sterling].
In Russia, no literary heroine commands such reverence and affection as Tatiana from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Not Natasha Rostova, not Anna Karenina, not anybody. Yet Tatiana's status as the archetypal Russian heroine does not necessarily mean that she is well understood. Olga Peters Hasty's 'tatianacentric' exposition of the novel offers a sustained and stimulating challenge to what Hasty sees as the somewhat narrow traditional modes of Tatiana veneration. Not that Hasty is iconoclastic: she does not seek to challenge Tatiana's right to heroic status. On ...
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