Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York : America and Americans in Russian Literary Perception
Travelers' writings, Russian Authors, Russian Americans in literature United States
NIU Press
2013
EISBN 1501758179
Bolsheviks in New York.
Pre-revolutionary discoveries of America: Korolenko and Gorky.
Post-revolutionary Columbuses: Esenin and Mayakovsky.
Automobile journeys of the 1930's: Pilniak and Ilf and Petrov.
The American text of Russian literature.
Recurrent subtexts and motifs in American travelogues.
Yankees in Petrograd.
Reverse American travelogues.
Conclusion: from Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca.
Pre-revolutionary discoveries of America: Korolenko and Gorky.
Post-revolutionary Columbuses: Esenin and Mayakovsky.
Automobile journeys of the 1930's: Pilniak and Ilf and Petrov.
The American text of Russian literature.
Recurrent subtexts and motifs in American travelogues.
Yankees in Petrograd.
Reverse American travelogues.
Conclusion: from Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca.
