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020			_a9781501757792 (ebook) : _cNo price
082			_a891.73009351
100			_aGivens, John, _d1962- _eauthor. _923076
245	1	4	_aThe image of Christ in Russian literature : _bDostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak / _cJohn Givens.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 272 pages).
520			_aVladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters 'sinning their way to Jesus.' In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the 19th century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. The writers at the heart of this book understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliché, doctrine, or naïve apologetics.
600	0	0	_aJesus Christ _xIn literature. _923077
600			_aDostoyevsky, Fyodor, _d1821-1881. _923078
600			_aTolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich, _cgraf, _d1817-1875. _923079
600			_aBulgakov, Mikhail, _d1891-1940. _923080
600			_aPasternak, Boris Leonidovich, _d1890-1960. _923081
650			_aRussian literature _xHistory and criticism. _923082
856			_uhttps://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780875807799.001.0001
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