Russian Village Prose:
The Radiant Past
Kathleen F. Parthé

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	A Note on Transliteration and Translation
1	The Parameters of Village Prose	3
2	The Question of Genre	13
3	The Poetics of Village Prose	29
4	Time, Backward!	48
5	Borrowed Time: Metaphors for Loss in Village Prose	64
6	The Village Prose Writers and Their Critics	81
7	Two Detectives in Search of Village Prose	99
8	Rewriting and Rereading Literary History	113
	Appendix I: "Kondyr"	129
	Appendix II: "Kondyr": A Parametric Analysis	140
	Notes	149
	Index	189

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