Author: Debreczeny, Paul
Title: Social Functions of Literature: Alexander Pushkin and Russian Culture
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,282,(4) pp. Textual tables. 4pp photos.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Reader's Response to the Text: The Writer as Engineer of Human Souls; Literature & the Formation of the Self; Catharsis; Social Determinants of Aesthetic Norms: Social Groups & their "Strategies for Living"; Measurements of Popularity; Mass Culture & the Literary Elite; The Myth of a Poet: The Elevation of Pushkin to Sainthood; Pushkin Lives; Appendices: School Readers, 1829-1917; School Textbooks, 1830-1912.

Keywords: Russian Literary History, Alexander Pushkin, Tsarist Russia, Social Sociology, Literature, Aesthetics, Criticism, ,