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This study of the effect of literature on readers, both as individuals and as members of social groups, focuses on Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, as a model for investigating the aesthetic and social functions of literature. The individual reader's response to the literary text is demonstrated in Part One through a broad range of memoirs, diaries, and correspondences in which Russian readers recorded their reactions to Pushkin. Among the reactions are testimonies that Pushkin's works helped readers form their personalities, provided cathartic relief in times of stress, and aided them in releasing their suppressed emotions. In his analysis, the author draws on various psychological approaches, from studies of perception through developmental psychology to psychoanalysis.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Social Functions of Literature
• Subtitle: Alexander Pushkin and Russian Culture
• Author: Paul Debreczeny
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780804726627
• ISBN: 0804726620
• ID: 04716453
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 630 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1997

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