The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature: A Study in Cultural Mythology

by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt

University of Wisconsin Press, 1992

Cloth: 978-0-299-13520-1 | Paper: 978-0-299-13524-9

Library of Congress Classification PG2989.H4K67 1992

Dewey Decimal Classification 891.709352

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This is the first book to study the development of the Cossack hero and to identify him as part of Russian cultural mythology. Kornblatt explores the power of the myth as a literary image, providing new and challenging readings of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and a host of other writers.

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